Re: Constant updating pkgdb

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:43:51 -0700
To: Steven Friedrich <freeBSD@InsightBB.com>

    On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:12:46PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
    > Every time I execute portversion, it updates the pkgdb. It didn't used to do
    > that.

    Yes; see discussion on ports@

    > And bdb1_btree STILL seems to be broke. I keep falling back to bdb1_hash.

    This shouldn't be the case. Make sure you have followed the
    directions in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

    Kris

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