From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 03:50:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1EE16A403 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 03:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@dwlabs.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266EE13C459 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 03:50:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@dwlabs.ca) Received: from ip02.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.10]) by mta02.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JI2007BQDBRCP42@mta02.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:50:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO dwpc.dwlabs.ca) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip02.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:49:49 -0300 Received: from dwpc.dwlabs.ca (ftp.dwlabs.ca [192.168.0.10]) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4F3oGwn020892; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:50:22 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: (from duane@localhost) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4F3oGqF020891; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:50:16 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 00:50:16 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <20070514202922.GF1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20070515035016.GG1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAEzKSEYY4MfmdGdsb2JhbACBXI4jNw X-IronPort-AV: i="4.14,535,1170648000"; d="scan'208"; a="185191163:sNHT6941500443" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/3243/Mon May 14 07:49:49 2007 on dwpc.dwlabs.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on dwpc.dwlabs.ca References: <20070513040651.GB1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <4647F627.7020408@u.washington.edu> <20070514202922.GF1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 Cc: Garrett Cooper Subject: Berkeley DB API [was Re: SoC] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 03:50:16 -0000 [snipped] > > > Do you know of any simple APIs that can quickly dump fields in use > > with BDB .db files? I have a hunch given the Ruby that I've taken a look at > > with Portupgrade that something very inefficient's in play, but I want > > to test my assumption first before jumping to conclusions. > > > > I did a quick ports search and came up with databases/ruby-bdb1. I don't grok ruby > but I've telling myself I should learn [sigh]. I don't know if this has a simple > API or not; I'll take a look but I suspect it is probably overkill. > > If this doesn't meet your project's needs I'll try coding something up in C. I > imagine we'll need some tools written in C at some point anyhow. > > > Thank you very much for the help :)! > > > > Well, we'll see about how much help I can be; but I'll try. It's your project > so let me know what you need or don't need/want > > > -Garrett Well, databases/ruby-bdb1 will not work because pkgtools uses the newer version of DB, Sleepycat DB 4.(2|3) I guess. However there is ruby-bdb that seems like it would be simple for someone who understands ruby. I've also noticed there is a perl and a python interface available as well. I wonder what the ramifications of the above are to the goal of using the bdb in our base system to add db smarts to the pkg_install tools in a way that will be complementary to exising tools? Duane