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On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:50:47AM +0200, Stefaan wrote: |
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> Hi all!! |
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> Here's an issue Seemant and I have been struggling with, and doesn't |
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> seem as easy to solve as like touching one ebuild. |
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You're making the problem seem much larger than it is. |
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Pauldv and myself have been managing berkdb pretty well, I haven't seen |
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bugs on it in a long time. |
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> |
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> Berkeley DB comes in many flavors. Judging by the slots in the |
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> ebuilds (1, 3, 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) there's many different interface |
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> versions. This comes with the added fun of having packages depend on |
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> certain versions of DB. Nothing shocking so far. |
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> However, looking at the heimdal-package we noticed several problems |
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> (which seem to be more widespread than just heimdal): |
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[snip] |
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Fix your package to compile with any version of db, that's the general |
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approach that has been taken so far, and it's been largely successful. |
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You should use these libraries and headers: |
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/usr/lib/libdb.{so,a} |
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/usr/include/db.h |
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If you want to limit it to a certain reason of DB for some other |
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reason, then consider /usr/include/db1, /usr/include/db3, |
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/usr/include/db4, /usr/include/db4.X. |
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And use the unversioned functions (db_create instead of db_create_4002). |
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To deal with the varying number of arguments, have a look at |
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PHP/nss_ldap - the fix is pretty simple, just an extra argument if the |
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version is 4 or newer (IIRC, but check). |
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Detection of some specific version is bad! Just figure out what major |
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version, and do the correct thing for that series. |
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In a bunch of cases, the best approach has been to just rip out |
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upstreams stuff from configure.in, and write it properly, and submit it |
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back to them (definetly see PHP4 in this regard). |
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Also take a look at db4-fix.eclass. |
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You claim the interface versions have changed, but the code is still |
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largely compatible. What's a larger issue is the fact that you can |
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upgrade an existing database, but not downgrade it. |
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If you are stuck updating the package for this, then give me or pauldv |
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a shout. |
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