Bug#621383: Still uses libdb4.7

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:45:44AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> I'm a bit concerned about user databases breaking on upgrades, but IIUC
> the transactional mode needs to be enabled with a DB_INIT_TXN flag [1]
> (among other things), and the Perl sources don't use that anywhere.
> Therefore, it seems possible that transactions can't be used through
> DB_File anyway and we're safe from the incompatibility. This probably
> needs further investigation.

I agree with your analysis, and I also note that the perl package went
through libdb4.6 and libdb4.7 transitions without any apparent issue.

I'll upload your changes to experiemental later on.

> [1] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/gsg_txn/C/enabletxn.html


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