On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 02:25:14 PM Hirohisa Yamaguchi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Scott Kitterman
>
> <ietf-dkim_at_kitterman.com> wrote:
> > FWIW, I think you can certainly be excused for not testing releases so old
> > that the newest of them seems to have been released in 2005. FreeBSD 9.1
> > is a relatively new release isn't it? Surely it has a DB from this
> > decade? Is there is, wouldn't it be better just to declare a minimum
> > version rather than support the myriad possible incompatibilities? As a
> > paraphrase of the old joke about the myth of the turtle on whose back the
> > world rides, old DB versions are incompatibilities all the way down.
>
> I'm maintaining an OpenDKIM package for FreeBSD ports
> # http://www.freshports.org/mail/opendkim/
>
> There is a variety of BDB port in FreeBSD ports --- from 4.0 to 5.
> I'd like to know if a certain version is not supported, so that the users
> of the port can install the product without problem.
Interesting. In Debian/Ubuntu (where I maintain opendkim) we try to port
everything to one DB release for each distro release to simplify maintenance.
The last Ubuntu release has only 5.1 and that is also the plan for the next
Debian release.
Scott K
Received on Wed Feb 27 2013 - 05:43:15 PST