Re: berkeley DB problems

[Mark . Burgess]

Thanks for your response (from Sleepycat!) Are you using cfengine
yourselves? I am interested in how you came to be on the list.
I suggested a while ago for cfengine to be mentioned on the sleepycat
homepage as an open source user of BerkeleyDB, but the suggestion
does not seem to be taken up.

Personally, I am not keen on including the tarball inside
cfengine. Apart from the minor API change in version 3, it
has never been any problem to cpmpile the program. THe main
problem has only been to find libraries included in Red Hat
linux. I see this as a Red Hat issue, not a db one.

best,
Mark Burgess
Associate Professor
Oslo University College


On 21 Apr, Keith Bostic wrote:
> address@hidden (Andy Mayhew) wrote in message 
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>>
>> It should suffice that the software
>> requires a particular major rev and let the administrator determine which
>> minor rev best works in their environment.
> 
> When checking for Berkeley DB revisions, we recommend checking
> both the major and minor numbers.  Sleepycat sometimes changes
> the Berkeley DB API without revising the major number, that is,
> the API is only guaranteed to be unchanged across patch number
> changes.  There are details in the "Library version information"
> section of the Berkeley DB Reference Guide, included in the DB 
> download package and also available at:
> 
>         http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/upgrade/version.html
> 
>> I also doubt that
>> the FSF would really appreciate having GPL software tarballs include
>> non-GPL'd code.
> 
> We encourage groups to directly include Berkeley DB if Berkeley
> DB version skew is causing them problems.  The DB license is 
> GPL compatible, so including it shouldn't cause any licensing 
> problems.
> 
>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:52:40AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>
>>> It's only a 2MB tarfile...  Seems like a small price to pay.
> 
> It's pretty easy to drop it to 1MB, if you care -- remove the
> included Perl modules, test suite and documentation.
>   
> Regards,
> --keith
>  
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