Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:11:33 +0200 From: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Berkeley DB 4.1 Message-ID: <52336365.2020702@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <l0s6lr$6o0$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <l0s6lr$6o0$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 2013-09-12 12:57, 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. > > 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? > Long time ago I had a short discussion with mandree@ about a bump to 4.8. 4.8 should be supported by most ports (also long time the default in many linux distributions) At last one argument I haven't seen in the discussion is "data migration", for example amavisd-new provides maintenance and backup / recover routines but other ports ?? -- olli
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