Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:58:46 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: thorsten@tgreiner.net, mi@aldan.algebra.com, gtodd@bellanet.org, lioux@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we discontinue the databases/db2 port? Message-ID: <790a9fff0512290758h1cd9d392y5781414ffeb4f433@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051223090639.GA18118@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20051223090639.GA18118@merlin.emma.line.org>
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On 12/23/05, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> after a recent bug report against various databases/db* ports that asked
> for consistency across these ports, I checked who is still using the
> ancient (not to say obsolete) db2-2.7.7 port. I found these five
> port|summary|maintainer tuples:
>
> $ grep -h db2-2.7 /usr/ports/INDEX{,-5,-6} | cut -d\| -f1,4,6 | sort -u
> amy-0.8.7|A chess program for playing and analyzing games|thorsten@tgrein=
er.net
> neotcl-8.2.2_2|The NeoTCL part of NeoWebScript -- an Apache TCL mod|mi@al=
dan.algebra.com
> neowebscript-3.3_2|Embeds a TCL8 interpreter in the Apache server|mi@alda=
n.algebra.com
> pks-0.9.6|PGP Public Key Server|gtodd@bellanet.org
> qtstalker-0.28|Commodity and stock market charting and technical analysis=
|lioux@FreeBSD.org
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> Can these five packages use a newer BerkeleyDB version such as db3 (3.3
> actually) or one of the db4* packages? If so, we could discontinue and
> remove the db2 port.
>
I'm working on converting all the ports that use db* to work with the
new USE_BDB variable from Mk/bsd.databases.mk. I have already
converted the above ports (except neowebscript, as it doesn't directly
depend on db2) to use the USE_BDB variable. I tried to compile them
with newer versions of db*, but the compilation failed. Someone would
need to either patch them or check if their is an upgrade which
supports a newer version of db*.
Scot
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