Berkeley DB 4.1

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

12.09.2013 13:57, 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.

My long time default was to get last available version and I never saw a 
breakage even with 5*. However there are some ports that strictly 
default to 48 (like net-p2p/bitcoin).

> 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?

I vote for 48 as 48 was the last version that had major enhancements.

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