[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] db-5.1 rebuild

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 15:52:14 EDT 2010


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Time to move on to the next rebuild!  This time it is for db-5.1.
>>
>> There are the following soname changes:
>>  libdb-4.8.so -> libdb-5.1.so
>>  libdb-4.so -> libdb-5.so
>>  libdb_cxx-4.8.so -> libdb_cxx-5.1.so
>>  libdb_cxx-4.so -> libdb_cxx-5.so
>>
>> It is a relatively small rebuild of 39 packages.
>>
>> I never got around to the db-5.0 update but that is a good thing as many
>> pieces of software check for a db major version >= 4 and minor version >= 1
>> when they just want db>=4.1...  Now we have db-5.1 we do not have to fix
>> that stupidness.   As always, more evidence that laziness pays off.
>>
>> I have pushed the db update to [staging] and will work on the rest of [core]
>> later tonight (unless someone beats me to it...)
>>
>> Allan
>
> What do we do for stuff like PHP which will get linked to PostgreSQL
> 9.0.1 which is in [testing] right now? Or will PostgreSQL be moved out
> of [testing] at the same time as the db rebuilds?

There was no .so bump, so it shouldn't matter.

-Dan


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