[csw-users] berkeleydb in flux

[Daniel Trinkle]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Am 10.08.2009 um 04:41 schrieb Daniel Trinkle:
>> Philip Brown wrote:
>>> Warning to CSW users: the upgrade of berkeleydb in 'current' has caused
>>> some unforseen side effects. Some things may break, if you upgrade
>>> berkeleydb at this time.
>>> We are working to rebuild known affected packages to use the newer
>>> version
>>> instead.  Please only upgrade with caution.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this also has a disastrous effect on anything outside
>> OpenCSW built against the libraries.  When built against explicit
>> versions (i.e. /opt/csw/bdb43), I think it is a reasonable expectation
>> that that will continue to be version 4.3.x -- not capriciously change
>> to an incompatible 4.7.x version.
> 
> Is it really incompatible? With the symlinks in place there shouldn't
> be a difference for most applications as BDB is ABI-compatible. If
> there are any problems please post them! It is important that we are
> aware of any issues that arise.

It may just be the application that is being overly paranoid.  Sendmail
spit out the following message and exited:

Aug  9 16:28:26 xxx sm-mta[457]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
SYSERR(root): Berkeley DB version mismatch: compiled against 4.2.52,
run-time linked against 4.7.25
Aug  9 16:28:26 xxx sm-msp-queue[458]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
SYSERR(root): Berkeley DB version mismatch: compiled against 4.2.52,
run-time linked against 4.7.25

The major/minor version check is in the sendmail code, not the BDB code.

Dan