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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net>
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Subject: Re: Berkeley DB v2.0
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Josh Tiefenbach wrote:

> I noticed poking around Keith Bostic's web page that he has released db
> v2.0.6. Has there been any nacsent thought to importing it into the tree, even
> taking into account that the new package is not compatible at the binary level
> with v1.85?
> 
> According to the notes on the web page, sendmail 8.9 (whenever that's due)
> will be using v2.
> 
> (compiles cleanly under 2.2-STABLE in case anybody is wondering)
> 
> josh
> 
> -- 
> Josh Tiefenbach - Assistant Gopher - ACC TelEnterprises - josh@ican.net


  Not only are the db files not compatible, but the API has changed too.

  I suggest making db 2.0.6 a port.

Tom