On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:46:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > [cc's trimmed a bit] > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:34:15AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:55:02PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > All I do is dbopen(filename, O_RDWR, mode, DB_BTREE, &b) - or O_RDONLY > > > or whatever's appropriate - where b is a BTREEINFO structure as follows: > > > > Well, to be honest, you have a better approach. Man-db uses only the > > db185 routines. So instead of linking to -ldb2 and using backward compat > > routines, do this: > > > > #define BDB_H db1/db.h > > > > LIBS=-ldb1 > > > > No reason to use an abstracted routine when libc6 includes libdb1 > > anyway. > > Whee. Will that stay there for the foreseeable future? Are the on-disk > formats compatible, or do I need to nuke existing databases when > switching to this in woody+1 (which is OK, they're just caches, but user > databases need to be taken into consideration)?
The on disk format should be the same. Will be easy to test for this though :) The libdb1 should remain for atleast woody, and most likely post-woody too (maybe). Post-woody, you can always switch to db3 and actually use the db3 interfaces. > There isn't much of use in the changelog about why Fabrizio chose to > link against libdb2 in the first place. Might have been when the huge libc6-db-is-incompat-with-libdb2 thing happened. Which was a long time ago. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
