Exim4, Sarge and libberkeleydb-perl

Andreas Metzler ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:19:57 +0100


On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:12:08PM +0100, Markus Zahn wrote:
[...] 
> With woody, both Exim4 and libberkeleydb-perl are built with support for 
> Berkeley DB version 3. With sarge, however, Exim4 still binds against 
> Berkeley DB version 3 (libdb3.so.3), but libberkeleydb-perl is built to 
> make use of Berkeley DB version 4 (libdb-4.2.so). Therefore, the 
> database format differs and Exim4 cannot access these databases.
> 
> Thus, it would be very helpful, if both would use the same version of 
> libdb. However, I don't know if changing the Exim4 package is an option, 
> here. Nevertheless, I guess that I'm not the only one that builds some 
> Exim4 databases with Perl ...

No you are not, which is why we have
http://bugs.debian.org/258311 which might or night be fixed before
sarge.
            cu andreas