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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;