[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:14:10PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:08 PM -0700 Steve Langasek 
> <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:12:48AM -0400, Roberto C. S??nchez wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:29:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> > openldap2.3 is still building against db4.2 at upstream's specific
> >> > recommendation.  According to upstream, db4.5 (and db4.4) have
> >> > regressions from db4.2 in supporting OpenLDAP.
> >
> >> > They have hopes for db4.6, once it's finally released.
> >
> >> > This doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't switch to db4.5 anyway,
> >> > depending on the severity of the regressions, but I wanted to note in
> >> > the bug log that there was a reason why this hadn't been done other
> >> > than simple lack of time.
> >
> >> This is something that we on the cyrus-sasl2 team are also dealing with.
> >> I think that what has held us back so far from going out on a limb is
> >> the integral nature of cyrus-sasl2 for most systems.
> >
> > FWIW, while I would say cyrus-sasl2 is fairly integral, the bdb support
> > /within/ cyrus-sasl2 is not as integral.  I don't use any of the sasl
> > methods on my systems that look up to a local db.
> >
> > Anyway, if there are problems, better that they be detected at the
> > beginning of the release cycle when it's easier to get any upstream bdb
> > problems fixed in time for lenny.
> 
> My hope is 4.6 will be out long before lenny.  It is the first release 
> since BDB 4.2 that I've seen actually outperform 4.2 across the board.  4.4 
> & 4.5 were both noticeably slower in read & write tests.

4.6.18 is now available. Would be nice to know if it seems like a
worthy replacement for 4.2.

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)