Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages requiring explicit db versions?

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:45:52PM -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> I'm hoping to advocate some more cleanups in sys-libs/db by proposing the removal of
> 4.0.* and 4.1.* from portage.  4.2 has been stable for a long time, with 4.3
> unstable and 4.4 and 4.5 available in package.mask.
There is one use-case that I am aware of against removing old versions of 4.*,
but I haven't seen it in the tree for a while - other folk might be more aware
of it: Ability to take DB files from other systems and read them sanely /
migrate them to new versions.

> If anyone has a package that won't work with >=sys-libs/db-4.2* please reply.  Note
> that this doesn't affect the 1.85 and 3.2.9 series'.
Here's a set of stuff of everything that looks for a specific version of 4.*.
dev-cpp/Ice/Ice-3.1.1.ebuild:	~sys-libs/db-4.3.29
app-admin/osiris/osiris-4.2.2.ebuild:	=sys-libs/db-4.2*"
app-admin/webalizer/webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild:DEPEND="!geoip? ( =sys-libs/db-4.2* )
kde-base/kbabel/kbabel-3.5.6.ebuild:	               =sys-libs/db-4.2* ) )"
mail-client/sylpheed-claws-maildir/sylpheed-claws-maildir-0.24.1.ebuild:		=sys-libs/db-4.2*"
mail-client/sylpheed-claws-maildir/sylpheed-claws-maildir-0.19.ebuild:		=sys-libs/db-4.2*"
mail-client/sylpheed-claws-maildir/sylpheed-claws-maildir-0.24.2.ebuild:		=sys-libs/db-4.2*"
mail-client/claws-mail-maildir/claws-mail-maildir-0.24.3.ebuild:		=sys-libs/db-4.2*"
mail-client/claws-mail-maildir/claws-mail-maildir-0.24.4.ebuild:		=sys-libs/db-4.2*"
dev-lisp/cl-elephant/cl-elephant-0.2.1.ebuild:	=sys-libs/db-4.2*
net-analyzer/nessus-bin/nessus-bin-3.0.5.ebuild:DEPEND="=sys-libs/db-4.3*
net-analyzer/nessus-bin/nessus-bin-3.0.4.ebuild:DEPEND="=sys-libs/db-4.3*

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