2.3/Sid release engineering (was Re: Missing autoconf build-dependancy in cyrus-imapd-2.3 branch ?)

[Duncan Gibb]

Sven Mueller wrote:

DG> a bit more release engineering will be required before we
DG> upload to Sid, I think...

SM> I took some time today to start developing a script which
SM> would upgrade all BerkeleyDB-Files as needed. Point is: At
SM> least from the currently used 4.2 to 4.6 (which seems to be
SM> the most recent version in unstable), a db4.6_upgrade on a
SM> 4.2 db file reports a successful upgrade without changing a
SM> single byte of the db file. So in this special case, we
SM> wouldn't need to do anything at all, it seems, except
SM> perhaps to automatically change the cyrus-db-types.active
SM> file to reflect the now-used BerkeleyDB engine.

That's great - thank you.

Sid and Squeeze are both carrying libdb4.7 for a reasonable spread of
architectures.

We (Sirius) had some issues with 4.6 on in-house builds, which looked
similar to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510270
Under pressure of time we decided to backport 4.7 to Lenny rather than
figure out what the real problem was...

Will make time to look at this properly RSN, honest ;-)


Cheers


Duncan

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