Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 14:26:36 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching /etc/*.db from bdb to tinycdb Message-ID: <CA%2BhQ2%2Bgv%2BQ7SXbK-G5Lybjt4XOF_b3EvyxtQiOCL7pGxmgWRcg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120502114115.GG31034@azathoth.lan> References: <20120502114115.GG31034@azathoth.lan>
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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to work on switching all the /etc/*.db files from bdb 1.85 to cdb > (using > the tinycdb implementation) > > Reason for doing that: > 1/ we use the *.db files as a constant database on recreating them using > *_mkdb(8) commands > 2/ bdb 1.85 database are endianness dependant which can cause problem if I > want > pkgng to be able to create users when cross installing packages (like > adding > packages in a mips eb chroot environment on an amd64 host) > 3/ the tinycdb API is clean and easy to use (I find it easier and cleaner > to > deal with it) > 4/ tinycdb is public domain so not problem for us to use it. > > On the side effects, I'm not sure this is relevant but tinycdb is also > faster to > read then bdb 1.85. > > How do I plan to do it. > > I plan to import the read part or tinycdb into libc and the write part into > libutil (to avoid cluttering libc). > > Why importing to libc? to allow all the get*ent to parse the /etc/*.db > files > just curious, where do we have the bdb 1.85 routines now ? Are they all in libc, or split between libc and libutil ? cheers luigi
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