Berkeley DB 4.1

[olli hauer]

On 2013-09-12 12:57, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to start a discussion on changing the default BDB port from 4.1
> to something more recent.
> 
> bdb version 4.1 was last released in 2002:
> README: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)
> 
> There are some ports which have an unexpected dependacy on bdb via APR
> (apache22, subversion), which does is not wrong in itself, but is
> somewhat unelegant (as a personal opinion of course).
> 
> I've found this previous discussion:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-February/081444.html
> 
> And while the argument seems valid, it also doesn't have an estimate of
> which / how many ports will break with a more recent bdb.
> 
> Could an experimental port build be done with setting WITH_BDB_VER to
> either the most recent 4.x version (WITH_BDB_VER=48), to the last
> Sleepycat Licensed version (50) or the recent version in ports (60) to
> see what breaks?
> 

Long time ago I had a short discussion with mandree@ about a bump to 4.8.
4.8 should be supported by most ports (also long time the default in many
linux distributions)

At last one argument I haven't seen in the discussion is "data migration",
for example amavisd-new provides maintenance and backup / recover routines
but other ports ??

-- 
olli