On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:14:44AM +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:00:49 am Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:00:56 am Hugo Monteiro wrote:
> > > > Is Berkely DB still a requirement, as I saw no mention of it in
> > > > documentation?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Hello Roman,
> > >
> > > IIRC, the berkeley DB backend as been deprecated, but i might be wrong.
> > > Could someone confirm this?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Hugo Monteiro.
> >
> > If you mean the "hash" DB, it was not a requirement before, only an option.
> > In the latest version, it has caused problems for some.  See the archives.
> > Because of that, I am still using the old version.
> >
> > Doug.
> >
> But if you are asking: Is the Berkeley DB a dependency? the answer seems to 
> be 
> No, unless you are using the "hash" backend.  The site doesn't mention 
> dependencies AFAICS, but the gentoo package for 3.8.0 lists only these:
> 
> clamav daemon ldap mysql postgres sqlite syslog large-domain virtual-users 
> user-homedirs debug debug-bnr debug-verbose
> 
> No BerkeleyDB there.
> 
> Doug.
> 

The BerkeleyDB backend was dropped a while back. Nobody was really
using it and it had even more problems than any other backend at the
time. Use the hash backend if you want something of its ilk but you
do not need BerkeleyDB for it.

Regards,
Ken

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