[csw-maintainers] Issues about BerkeleyDB... again!

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 13.12.2010 um 18:52 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On 12/13/10, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Am 13.12.2010 um 11:40 schrieb swardle at hiden.co.uk:
>>> I filed a bug against amavisd_new
>>> (https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4629) but I think the problem
>>> is that pm_berkeleydb requires updating for CSWbdb48 4.8.30.
>> 
>> Ugh, I wasn't aware that the *specific* bdb version is used instead of 4.8.x
>> This is very bad. It may require rebuilding everything depending on 4.8:
>>  http://www.opencsw.org/packages/berkeleydb48/
>> 
> 
> This is exactly why I have been against having a lot of different
> versions of berkeleydb in our active catalog. It makes our lives
> messier.
> Certain programs, once compiled with a specific version of it, want to
> *stick* with a specific version of it. So the fewer versions we have
> of berkeleydb, the better for us.
> 
> On the brighter side, reading the bug report... it sounds like the
> amavisd checker is being overly .. picky.
> What does it care, about which .h file is installed?

It does not. The perl module has it compiled in and possible every program
using it could be misguarded - and I won't repatch the perl module. To make
it as good as possible we just respin the packages and hopefully be done with
it and remind next time to first rebuild bdb-world.


Best regards

  -- Dago