From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Zaitcev Subject: Re: CLD doesn't build on db-4.3 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:50:10 -0600 Message-ID: <20100401145010.0204151a@redhat.com> References: <4BB47D27.6080405@samba.org> <4BB4B5D4.2000300@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BB4B5D4.2000300@garzik.org> Sender: hail-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Samba - BoYang , hail-devel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:48 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > It won't build on db-4.4, either. probably won't build on db-4.5, as > > db-5.0 says DBC->xxx was introduced in db-4.6. :-) Should we disable > > support for 4.3 - 4.5 and add 4.9 - 5.0? > > I'd answer "yes", by a circuitous route: if I understand things > correctly, the replicated PAXOS db4 backend that we are heading towards > (see the 'replica' branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/daemon/cld/cld.git) was buggy in early db4 > releases. > Therefore, it sounds like we could eliminate two issues with a single > change, by removing support for db 4.3 - 4.5, the DBC issue and the > PAXOS issue. RHEL 5 ships with db4-4.3.29-10.el5 (I checked for Bo's problem this morning), so dropping 4.3 will make RHEL 5 unsupportable. Just a point to consider. -- Pete