Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 13:16:03 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? Message-ID: <10849.957266163@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 2000 13:05:19 %2B0200." <v0422080ab53464df3042@[195.238.1.121]>
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In message <v0422080ab53464df3042@[195.238.1.121]>, Brad Knowles writes: >Folks, > > A thread on news.software.nntp got me checking into this, and now >I've gotten very curious. From what I can determine, it looks like >what is integrated into FreeBSD is Berkeley db 1.85 (in >/usr/src/libc/db), although there is a port for 2.7.7 in >/usr/ports/databases/db. > > Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that db 1.85 is >pretty widely known to be broken in a number of ways (see ><http://www.sleepycat.com/historic.html>), and I'm wondering what it >would take to get this updated to at least 2.x, if not make the jump >all the way to 3.x (currently at 3.0.55, according to ><http://www.sleepycat.com/download.html>)? Sleepycats license is not FreeBSD compatible :-/ > On a related issue, as another Berkeley alumni, how easy would it >be for Keith to get committer access to FreeBSD, assuming he wanted >it (and doesn't have it already ;-)? For maintaining db ? Sure. But I understand that the license issue holds up the upgrade to a newer DB and that Keith has no interest in maintaining the older version we use. > Out of curiosity, is there a public list of all the people who >have commit access to FreeBSD? Yes, it's in the CVS tree in the file CVSROOT/access and in the Handbook as well. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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