[2817] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: pending/496: krb5-1.0.2 DB lib very old
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Wed Nov 12 12:26:40 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:26:18 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, sfreed@gilasoft.com
Cc: gnats-admin@RT-11.MIT.EDU, krb5-prs@RT-11.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Steven Freed's message of Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:25:01 -0500,
<199711121325.IAA17398@rt-11.MIT.EDU>
Please update the DB2 library from the ALPHA pre-release to the current
version. The one distributed with krb5-1.0.2 is extremely out of date and
it is difficult to compile krb5-1.0.2 when you have the more recent one in
libc.a
Krb5 1.0 does not use the DB2 library, it uses the Berkeley DB 1.85
library. (Which can be freely used for commercial or non-commercial
software under the BSD license.) We do get copies of the release
announcements from Sleepycat Software, so we are aware of the existence
of DB 2.x from Sleepycat.
What sort of problems are you having when DB2 is located in libc? And
why is it there in the first place?
To quote from excerpted parts of the DB2 FAQ:
>Note, many systems that distributed DB 1.85 included it as part of the C
>library. While that can be done with DB 2.0 as well, we recommend that
>DB 2.0 be maintained as a separate library from the C library where
>possible because of its size and complexity,
The latest version of DB2 is format incompatible with the version of DB
1.85, and at the time of the 1.0 release, we weren't confident about the
relative stability of DB 2.x as compared with DB 1.85.
- Ted
