Changing db -> db3 and db4 -> db proposal

Stefan Wold ratler at lunar-linux.org
Sat Jan 22 14:57:02 UTC 2005


Add Linux-PAM to the OK list as well :)

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Stefan Wold wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> We had a discussion on #lunar today where most of us agreed we should get rid 
> of the ancient db3 module as dependency. Most of the modules will work 
> perfect with db4. One of the problems is when some modules start to link 
> against both db and db4 module which definatly break things, assuming you 
> have both db and db4 installed.
>
> To solve this we decided to mobe db to db3 and db4 to db. This still requires 
> a bit more testing since we will have to force a rebuild of all apps 
> depending on the module db. I have started and have confimred that:
>
> perl
> apache
> cyrus-sasl
> exim
> php
> heimdal
> openldap (but have an issue with cyrus-sasl, not db related)
> gnome-libs
>
>
> ... works just great with db (db4). If you know any apps that really wont run 
> with db4 just let me know, because if not we are going to change so db will 
> be version 4.x instead.
>
>
> Sincerely
> Stefan Wold
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