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On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:31:57PM -0400, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> After the 1.4 release, I think it would be a good idea to make another |
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> pass at making db4 the default in gentoo. We're starting to get |
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> packages such as the latest openldap that require db4. |
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Yep, we definitely need to get db4 ready. I remember that there has been |
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repeated requests to add symbol versioning to db in order to eliminate |
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problems in allowing multiple db versions to co-exist. From an 23 April |
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email from pauldv: |
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> One thing I noticed when making the subversion ebuild is that gentoo doesn't |
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> use symbol versioned db libs. That means that different versions cannot |
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> co-exist. Making db3 versioned is a problem though as all dependencies need |
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> to be recompiled to use the versioned symbols (the others don't exist |
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> anymore in that case) |
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And from pauldv's 05 May email: |
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> While investigating a subversion bug requesting a db4 compiled apache2 I |
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> found that the db4 ebuilds do not compile with --with-uniquename. This |
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> option will make sure that different db versions have different symbol |
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> names. As such it allows different db versions to coexist. |
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> But if we want to have such a db4 we need to do it fast as this option |
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> requires all packages that use db to be recompiled because of mismatching |
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> symbols. I'm though not the db maintainer so I propose here to enable this |
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> option now with all (masked) db4 ebuilds |
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I replied that I'd like this fixed, and Paul replied and said that he'd get |
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on it. It doesn't appear that this effort has been completed as the current |
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db in portage still uses non-versioned symbols. We should get this done |
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before the 1.4 release so that new users don't have to worry about |
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recompiling all their db-based apps. |
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I just talked to Seemant on irc. He's going to get the right people working |
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on this so that we get some kind of good solution in place asap. Thanks in |
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advance to anyone who helps out in this effort. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins |
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Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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