Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:58:32 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Berkeley DB 4.1 Message-ID: <5231AC68.6040003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <l0s6lr$6o0$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <l0s6lr$6o0$1@ger.gmane.org>
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12.09.2013 13:57, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to start a discussion on changing the default BDB port from 4.1 > to something more recent. > > bdb version 4.1 was last released in 2002: > README: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002) > > There are some ports which have an unexpected dependacy on bdb via APR > (apache22, subversion), which does is not wrong in itself, but is > somewhat unelegant (as a personal opinion of course). > > I've found this previous discussion: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-February/081444.html > > And while the argument seems valid, it also doesn't have an estimate of > which / how many ports will break with a more recent bdb. My long time default was to get last available version and I never saw a breakage even with 5*. However there are some ports that strictly default to 48 (like net-p2p/bitcoin). > Could an experimental port build be done with setting WITH_BDB_VER to > either the most recent 4.x version (WITH_BDB_VER=48), to the last > Sleepycat Licensed version (50) or the recent version in ports (60) to > see what breaks? I vote for 48 as 48 was the last version that had major enhancements. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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