portversion/portupgrade

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:55:09PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 2:47 PM -0700 5/28/03, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, May 28, 2003, Talbot, Paul wrote:
> > >
> >> Hello all...
> >>
> > > I have an issue with portversion and portupgrade (20030427) on
> > > my Ultra 10....
> > >
> > > After running the 'portsdb -Uu' command, I get the following
> > > output from portversion and portupgrade:
> > >
> >>	localhost# portversion
> >>	** No package matching '*' was found.
> >>	localhost#
> >>
> >>	localhost# portupgrade -a
> >>	** No such package '*' is installed.
> >>	localhost#
> >
> >Yes, this is known to be broken.  knu is aware of it, but seems
> >to be too busy to fix it.  If there are any other ruby hackers
> >out there who are familiar with the ruby internals, fixing this
> >would be a great help.
> 
> Do you know if this a bug in ruby itself, or is it only in
> portversion && portupgrade?  Is it only happening on sparc64?

It's apparently a bug in ruby on sparc64.  I don't think the bug
exists on other 64-bit platforms, so it might be an endianness bug.

Kris
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