On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:47:27PM -0400, Jerry A! wrote:
> I'm using LFS v2 as /var on a box I'm setting up.  Whenever I use vi I
> get the following error "Inappropriate file type or format".  Hmm.  The
> perms on /var/tmp look correct.  Linking /tmp -> /var/tmp solves the
> immediate problem.
> 
> Then I go to build some packages.  I get the same error again.  Looking
> at /var/db/pkg, I see the following:
> 
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel                   512 Sep 25 13:38 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel                   512 Sep 25 13:38 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel                   512 Sep 25 13:38 digest-20010807
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  18446744073709551615 Sep 25 13:38 pkgdb.byfile.db
> 
> Methinks something very strange is going.  I'll send-pr this, but I
> thought I'd also check and see if anyone has seen this issue.
> 
> Thanks in advance...

I think it's because mmap() isn't supported on LFS in -current yet.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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