Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:16:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is Berkley DB libdb? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000929141518.88923A-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000929160401.A4637@student.uu.se>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > 3) How can i avoid all this mess and make every single executable use the > > version > > i have installed (2.7.7). > > Probably not without a lot of problems. You would basically have to replace > the system version with the new one, make world, make sure that any > database files that the system use have been updated. Not for the faint of > heart. (Basically, if you don't know how to check the sources to see what > version of db it has you shouldn't even try this.) > > Note that files created with the 2.x versions of DB are *not* compatible with > the older 1.x versions. And to make things worse, 3.0 is not compatible with 2.x or 1.x, and 3.1 is not compatible with 3.0 or 2.x or 1.x. 3.1 is used by some newer software, such as cyrus-2.0.x. -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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