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From: "Robin H.Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] OpenLDAP and other things held up by DB4...
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:18:00
Message-Id: 20030724071759.GC770@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net
1 Greetings,
2
3 First a spot of background information:
4 I've been hammering my head against the LDAP server running on dev.g.o
5 and cvs.g.o for more than a week now. Several users will attest to the
6 strange bugs that have been seen (eg two near identical sets of user
7 information, one user can login, the other can't!). It's OpenLDAP
8 2.0.27-r4. The latest offical stable OpenLDAP is 2.1.22 and the current
9 testing is 2.2.0alpha. 2.0 is not even supported upstream anymore for
10 new deployments and everybody else is encouraged to upgrade. But wait a
11 minute you say, Gentoo is on the cutting edge! What is holding up
12 OpenLDAP?
13
14 The answer is quite simply: DB4.
15
16 pauldv has bug #23571 open to track what is stopping DB4 from going out.
17 They are (with my comments):
18 #22876 Heimdal 0.6 - this has a patch, just needs testing
19 #23575 nvi
20 #23578 dev-perl/DB_File-1.803-r2 - possible obsolete?
21 #23583 net-mail/courier-0.42.2 - the author last said he wasn't supporting DB4 yet.
22 #23586 net-mail/maildrop-1.5.2 - same as #23583.
23 #23587 net-misc/cfengine-2.0.6 - FreeBSD has it working
24 #23590 x11-misc/hotkeys-0.5.7.1 - last release Dec 8 2002
25
26 These 7 bugs are holding up a large number of packages.
27
28 Previously the packages being held up were all hardmasked in
29 packages.mask, and AMD64 came along, removed the hardmask and instead
30 changed ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to amd64 only.
31
32 I have several production systems running fine at work with DB4 (4.1.25
33 actually) and several packages that depend on DB4, but that is only
34 because I don't use those packages that are broken anyway.
35
36 Could I suggest for the moment that these packages that still don't work
37 with DB4 just have blocks applied for DB4, and DB4 (and 4.1) released in
38 the meantime?
39
40 --
41 Robin Hugh Johnson
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