Re: Unable to install both Samba and Claws-Mail

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 12:48 PM Daniel Lysfjord
<lysfjord.daniel@smokepit.net> wrote:
>
> On 2026-08-13 18:02, Jerry wrote:
> > I have "default_database_type = lmdb" in my Postfix 'main.cf' file. So
> > far, it appears to be working; however, I have not tried to rebuild
> > it. This is a serious mess that someone should have caught before the
> > changes were released. I would have thought you could build a static
> > version of 'lmdb', place it in a different folder, and point to it in
> > the 'makefile'.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Jerry
> ----8<----snipping things after top-post------>8-------
>
> You can yell at the LMDB project for making an incompatible on disk
> format with no automatic handling of upgrades when going from 0.9 to
> 1.0. It was a fun surprise when services failed to read their own
> databases, with error messages making zero sense (bind comes to mind).
>
> Snippet from the commit log message:
> databases/lmdb0: Add port for LMDB 0.9.x legacy ABI
>
> LMDB 1.0 introduced an incompatible on-disk format change and subtle
> API breakage: applications that compiled cleanly against 1.0 headers
> could fail silently at run time. Known affected ports include dns/knot3,
> mail/bogofilter, and mail/postfix; the postfix issue has been confirmed
> upstream. Linux distributions such as Arch Linux have observed the same
> breakage. Samba can also be affected in certain configurations.
>
> Because the regression is not detectable in an -exp build run -- the
> postfix failure only manifests at run time, and bogofilter was caught
> only because post-build self-tests happen to exercise this path -- we
> cannot rely on package builds to validate the 1.0 upgrade.
>
> This commit introduces databases/lmdb0 as a holding port for the 0.9.35

Thanks for the update. It seems the LMDB project doesn't give a crap
about compatibility or proper upgrade handling. I was more than
slightly annoyed to find that Samba was removed from my system when I
updated Claws-Mail. I suppose OI should lock down postfix so it is not
deleted by mistake.

Ciao