From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 20:02:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C973316A408 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F8913C448 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1CF1CC8B; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:02:07 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:02:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47BDD337.4060002@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <47BDD337.4060002@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802212102.05770.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Subject: Re: Which version of berkeley DB? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:02:08 -0000 On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:38:31 Erik Norgaard wrote: > So far I have managed to keep all on version 43 of Berkeley DB, I see > there is now 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6. > > - Is there any way to find out which is the latest version all ports > will build against? No, cause there's reasons there's so many db4* ports. Some interfaces changed along the way and depending software needs time to conform to it. However: You can set WITH_BDB_VER in /etc/make.conf and pick one. If you grep BDB /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.databases.mk you can quickly see that a portmaintainer has more power then you. > - Is there any reason to upgrade? Other then diskspace and clutter, there is no reason to remove older versions as they are properly separated by the ports. But as said you can specify a default to be used when the port does not care which version 4 it needs. In Utopia this should slowly migrate out ancient versions. In the real world, there will be this one unmaintained app you really like that won't work with anything over 42 :p -- Mel