db4 vs db43

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Aug 26 16:21:03 PDT 2007


On Aug 25, 2007, at 19:52, Rainer Müller wrote:

> I noticed we got a db4 port, which installs bdb 4.3.29 and a db43 port
> which installs exactly the same version.
>
> Now I'm asking if we can either
> a) remove db4 completely and upgrade ports depending on it to a  
> specific
>    version db4[1-6]
> or
> b) make db4 some sort of meta port depending on the latest version of
>    db4x only without intalling anything.
>
> What do you think?

I'm in favor of removing db4 completely and fixing the ports that  
depend on it to depend instead on db43 so nothing breaks.





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