From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 02:45:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54BF16A421 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:45:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BEC13C484 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:45:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4L2j81I020079 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 19:45:08 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-166-149-71.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.166.149.71]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4L2iv8f008117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 19:45:06 -0700 Message-ID: <465107A5.3070903@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 19:44:53 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu> <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net> <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.20.192435 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: More questions about BDB X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:45:08 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 20), Sean Bryant said: >> Just a personal curiosity. Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD >> is holding on to BDB 1.85? > > All later versions have a non-BSD license (a source redistribution > requirement was added), which means it can't go in the base system. > BDB is built into libc and is used for the hashed passwd & termcap > databases. Correct. BDB 1.85 is also packaged in gnu libc I believe, which makes it a more portable means for representing databases without external libraries. -Garrett