Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#10984 closed defect (fixed)
DB-18.1.25 breaks postfix build.
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 8.3 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
I note that nobody else except homebrew (mac) are using DB-18. The problems seems to be the past relicensing for DB-6, see e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/557820/.
Arch have 5 as part of their system (with one minimal patch to make it build), but they also have 4.9 with changes to provide unique names, and 6 in AUR (conflicts with system version).
The breakage is from:
| DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 5 |
(DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 4 && DB_VERSION_MINOR > 0)
I will try a minimal fix, but I wonder if we should revert to DB-5.
NB 5 years since the last similar issue, http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-dev/2013-August/025556.html
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
I've now raised #10989 to revert to db-5 which (apart from any build issues it has with our current toolchain) should be accepted by all packages which use it.
Closing.
My fix seems to work for my current minimal use case (run postfix on a desktop machine without SASL to forward fcron mail to another local machine).
Whether it will work correctly in all circumstances depends on whatever changed between db-6 and db-18.
I'll raise a separate ticket for possibly reverting to 5.3 later.