[Pkg-citadel-devel] berkeley DB version...

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:19:40PM +0200, w.goesgens wrote:
> Do we have any control over which berkeley db we're linked against?

Yes, by build-depending on the corresponding libdb4.?-dev package.

> as, we recommend the db4.6-util, but just build depend on libbdb-dev 

libdb-dev will always depend on the latest libdb*-dev package, which in turn
depends on the latest libdb* package. So we are up-to-date there. However,
db4.6-util might get outdated without us noticing. Not sure how to fix this.

> The util package is bound to the version of the db creator (citadel in that
> case though)
> 
> Thus we need to make shure they're the same. else we will drive our users in
> misary and pain... 

Agreed.

Michael

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