From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 12 11:58:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E250E39E; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:58:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from c.kworr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x22c.google.com (mail-la0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43B282CA7; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f44.google.com with SMTP id eo20so8663361lab.31 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:58:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g13oD2favRW3WB16KcJogQlFpK6sjYPf7Q8kOakrwEM=; b=mgHqy4JaJOlH5azEPfYCD3/mxeZMW8cIdckA62Oj/yU42zY02PNDgWV34pYmwAcYrQ lxZnlpTcb12M5sXwGgRHf6f5UX51XrnRIZtV8Al3dhTYNdZ+PqkDUWk6G1G82oH+2PPe dk2CTIx1iBBkpaGI+D0+yyG69Sfi04qzPxjNMa8rdgzs+kdMo+7b2N9BA3JeiG5AuCcl z9hoBF3qmIeFIx15EFOYyOWfm/yG0e9D2ZGiSyRBYkJ1MsJRSISh9DA3ux/K4n/vQgXS 47i9S6XiUJYvENSsd6TGPWaVNrCQ2ybyLHngShPtk874PbMR4JMyj3KGjG6z1VAGET0x IUAw== X-Received: by 10.112.29.147 with SMTP id k19mr7107872lbh.9.1378987114371; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.126] (mau.donbass.com. [92.242.127.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ao4sm1576333lac.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5231AC68.6040003@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:58:32 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130909 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Berkeley DB 4.1 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:58:37 -0000 12.09.2013 13:57, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to start a discussion on changing the default BDB port from 4.1 > to something more recent. > > bdb version 4.1 was last released in 2002: > README: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002) > > There are some ports which have an unexpected dependacy on bdb via APR > (apache22, subversion), which does is not wrong in itself, but is > somewhat unelegant (as a personal opinion of course). > > I've found this previous discussion: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-February/081444.html > > And while the argument seems valid, it also doesn't have an estimate of > which / how many ports will break with a more recent bdb. My long time default was to get last available version and I never saw a breakage even with 5*. However there are some ports that strictly default to 48 (like net-p2p/bitcoin). > Could an experimental port build be done with setting WITH_BDB_VER to > either the most recent 4.x version (WITH_BDB_VER=48), to the last > Sleepycat Licensed version (50) or the recent version in ports (60) to > see what breaks? I vote for 48 as 48 was the last version that had major enhancements. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.