Re: [blfs-support] Revert Berkeley DB to v5

[scrat]

On 08/04/2018 06:13 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:

[putolin]


Many packages were already moving away from Berkeley at the time of
the license change.  For us, the problem with using 18.1.25 (and
later 19, 20 if we keep going) is "what changed which might impact
the packages using this ?"  The big distros have enough users for
problems to be noticed and fixes prepared.  We don't.

As I understand it, downloading from Oracle requires registration,
even for db-5.  That's why we're using a secondary site for 18.1.25.


This works for me using wget with a file of packages to download:
http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-6.0.20.tar.gz

Never signed on or registered


-- 
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Revert Berkeley DB to v5

[scrat]

On 08/03/2018 01:59 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:

I've now raised ticket
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/10989#ticket
for this.  I documented the reasons on -dev in
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/10989#ticket
but since most users don't read -dev I'll mention it here too.

AFAICS, use of DB version 5 is a known and expected situation, so
the details of what changed internally in a given version do not
need to concern us (unlike any possible changes from v6 to v18).
So, once it builds (Arch apply a patch) it should just drop in and
reduce our maintenance.

But maybe I'm missing something, or perhaps people think that
reverting to an old stable version is generally undesirable.  If so,
this is your chance to speak up.

NB - I'm already overdrawn on the time I'm committing to BLFS.  All
being well, I'll look at this on my *next* build (that will be
several days away) where I plan to experimentally try newer versions
of some packages to see if htey cause problems.

ĸen


I build rpm with Berkeley DB version 6.0.20.  and have not had an issues 
for 2 years.

I do not use the Arch linux patch, it builds straight up for me.
What was the issue with version 6?
--
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page