Bug#442645: exim4: newer BDB

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Marc Haber:
> > I have been informed that it is not always a brilliant idea to use
> > latest Berkeley DB, right?
> 
> If you use on-disk database environments (grep for DB_ENV to get an
> idea if this is the case), you need quite a bit of code to handle
> updates properly (and downgrades, of course).  If you use just plain
> DB objects, it's not very likely that you'll notice any changes.

Exim's default config only uses Berkeley DB files for transient data
such as retry hints, and the postinst code simply removes all db files
that exim_dumpdb gives a non-zero reply code for.

If the local admin decides to use db files for some input lists, they
need to do manual work.

Greetings
Marc

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