Berkeley DB API [was Re: SoC]

[Garrett Cooper]

Duane Whitty wrote:
> [snipped]
>>> 	Do you know of any simple APIs that can quickly dump fields in use 
>>> 	with BDB .db files? I have a hunch given the Ruby that I've taken a look at 
>>> with Portupgrade that something very inefficient's in play, but I want 
>>> to test my assumption first before jumping to conclusions.
>>>
>> I did a quick ports search and came up with databases/ruby-bdb1.  I don't grok ruby
>> but I've telling myself I should learn [sigh].  I don't know if this has a simple
>> API or not; I'll take a look but I suspect it is probably overkill.
>>
>> If this doesn't meet your project's needs I'll try coding something up in C.  I
>> imagine we'll need some tools written in C at some point anyhow.
>>
>>> 	Thank you very much for the help :)!
>>>
>> Well, we'll see about how much help I can be; but I'll try.  It's your project
>> so let me know what you need or don't need/want
>>
>>> -Garrett
> 
> Well, databases/ruby-bdb1 will not work because pkgtools uses the newer version of 
> DB, Sleepycat DB 4.(2|3) I guess.  However there is ruby-bdb that seems like it
> would be simple for someone who understands ruby.  I've also noticed there is a
> perl and a python interface available as well.
> 
> I wonder what the ramifications of the above are to the goal of using the bdb in
> our base system to add db smarts to the pkg_install tools in a way that will be
> complementary to exising tools?
> 
> Duane

BDB-1 is an available option actually with the ruby tools. Try "make 
config" in the ports-mgmt/portupgrade directory.

BDB v2+ isn't allowable in the base system because of licensing issues. 
I already talked to Kris about it.

-Garrett