Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

[Galen Johnson]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
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>>On 18 Nov 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
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>>>1. Heavily tested and debugged AND patched BerkeleyDB 3.2, stay away
>>>   from 4.x for now.  (i.e. use the ones from RedHat or Debian, not
>>>   upstream).
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>>Red Hat now supplies 4.0.14, for example the db4-4.0.14-14.i386.rpm in
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>Then stick to Debian :-)
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>>Red Hat 8.0.  It appears to work OK for me, but we have small setups
>>only here... maybe we have just not met the bug(s) yet??
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>Well, people report a good range of trouble with DB4 in this list, but not
>many in DB 3.2.  Maybe too few of us still use 3.2, though.
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>>In general, though the statement "Use 3.2... ie. use the ones from
>>RedHat or Debian ..." is confusing, because for Red Hat 8.x users, the
>>current RH-supplied production release of these libraries is now
>>4.0.14.
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>I will keep that in mind.
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>>Are you recommending that RH 8.0 users running Cyrus should downgrade
>>their BDB libraries to a 3.x RPM set for db3 (perhaps as supplied for
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>No. That will break the OS.
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>>What will it take to get some/all of these patches into 2.1.11 or 2.2
>>or both?  Is that a worthwhile objective?  Or are these changes so
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>No. CMU is slowly making their mind about the patches while they study them,
>but they will take a lot of time to leak into cyrus.  And I don't expect all
>of them to, either.
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>>Linux-specific that they have would negative consequences if applied
>>to a source tree used for a Solaris or *BSD build??  With Linux being
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>No negative consequences that I know of.  But increased resilience hides the
>real problems sometimes.
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>>putting this info into a FAQ (as well as making it the default in 2.2)
>>seems approriate.
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>It is in both AFAIK.
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Correct me if I'm wrong...wasn't one of the changes with 2.1.10 the 
ability to run with BDB 4.1?

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