Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:05:07 +0200 From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/gnats Makefile Message-ID: <4DF47333.9000109@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110612012433.GB989@lonesome.com> References: <20110612012433.GB989@lonesome.com>
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On 2011-06-12 03:24, Mark Linimon wrote:
> dougb writes:
>
>> What would it take to upgrade freefall to gnats4?
>
> Coordination with all the sites that mirror GNATS to tell them that the
> database and index formats change. This is why I never did it several
> years back when I first looked at it. (We have no idea who actually
> mirrors it for local use, but it's non-zero.)
>
> portsmon runs gnats4 using a shim so it's not a factor.
>
> IMHO any time spent working on GNATS internals is not time well spent.
> It's a dead project upstream in any case.
>
> mcl
>
I use gnats4 with a mirrored DB and have no issues with the old db format.
The following diff for gnats4 change the default binary index to the older
plain index format.
--- ./gnats/dbconfig.in.orig 2002-10-31 21:28:52.000000000 +0100
+++ ./gnats/dbconfig.in 2011-06-12 09:58:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -756,7 +756,8 @@
}
# A somewhat convoluted binary format is used when binary-index is set
# to true.
- binary-index true
+ #binary-index true
+ binary-index false
}
# initial-entry describes which fields should be present on initial entry;
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