Can we discontinue the databases/db2 port?

[Graham Todd]

Scot Hetzel wrote / a écrit / ha escrito:
> On 12/23/05, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>after a recent bug report against various databases/db* ports that asked
>>for consistency across these ports, I checked who is still using the
>>ancient (not to say obsolete) db2-2.7.7 port. I found these five
>>port|summary|maintainer tuples:
>>
>>$ grep -h db2-2.7 /usr/ports/INDEX{,-5,-6} | cut -d\| -f1,4,6 | sort -u
>>amy-0.8.7|A chess program for playing and analyzing games|thorsten at tgreiner.net
>>neotcl-8.2.2_2|The NeoTCL part of NeoWebScript -- an Apache TCL mod|mi at aldan.algebra.com
>>neowebscript-3.3_2|Embeds a TCL8 interpreter in the Apache server|mi at aldan.algebra.com
>>pks-0.9.6|PGP Public Key Server|gtodd at bellanet.org
>>qtstalker-0.28|Commodity and stock market charting and technical analysis|lioux at FreeBSD.org
>>
>>Can these five packages use a newer BerkeleyDB version such as db3 (3.3
>>actually) or one of the db4* packages? If so, we could discontinue and
>>remove the db2 port.
>
> I'm working on converting all the ports that use db* to work with the
> new USE_BDB variable from Mk/bsd.databases.mk.  I have already
> converted the above ports (except neowebscript, as it doesn't directly
> depend on db2) to use the USE_BDB variable.  I tried to compile them
> with newer versions of db*, but the compilation failed. Someone would
> need to either patch them or check if their is an upgrade which
> supports a newer version of db*.
> 
> Scot

Thanks for this. I will see what I can do for pks.

Cheers,