Re: pkg/39593: pkg_delete crashes on RHEL 4.5/amd64

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%web.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39593; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack%web.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39593: pkg_delete crashes on RHEL 4.5/amd64
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:22:08 +0000

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/39593; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/39593: pkg_delete crashes on RHEL 4.5/amd64
 > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:44:19 +0200
 > 
 >  On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 02:05:00PM +0000, rehsack%web.de@localhost wrote:
 >  > I can't tell the real reason for the crash, I assume somewhat like a
 >  > compiler misbehaviour. In fact, I tried to update p5-XML-DOM-1.44
 >  > which causes pkg_delete to dump core.
 >  
 >  Please update pkg_install and try again. This is a problem specific to
 >  64bit systems with pkg_install-20080423 where libc lacks md5 support.
 >  
 >  Joerg
 
 Joerg, you're right - it works.
 But I cannot understand why my change let it work before.
 
 By the way, fixed is fixed.
 
 Thanks & best regards,
 /Jens