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Date:      Thu, 29 May 2003 00:21:44 +0200
From:      Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portversion/portupgrade
Message-ID:  <20030528222144.GA667@crow.dom2ip.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030528220215.GA94270@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <F455E4114C4AD211BCDF00805F31BCF312B27EE3@USSAM203> <20030528214711.GA94049@rot13.obsecurity.org> <p05210608bafae02394b7@[128.113.24.47]> <20030528220215.GA94270@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, 2003/05/28 at 15:02:15 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.

I believe that this is fixed in ruby-devel.

	- Thomas

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