Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 19:44:53 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More questions about BDB Message-ID: <465107A5.3070903@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu> <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net> <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com>
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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
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