On Friday 11 January 2008 01:39:45 Tony Earnshaw wrote: > On both platforms I insist on rpms, right? I use Buchan Milne's OL > srpms, available at http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/. The srpms get > rebuilt on my systems; it's often only necessary to substitute latest > source in the rpm spec; sometimes more work is necessary. > > Buchan delivers discrete db4 stuff (as well as OL stuff) that can never > conflict with Red Hat's. Obviously it's in many ways a compromise, but > this approach does mean that it can exist together with Red Hat's on the > same machine. > > Lastly, you want to use db4 4.6, right? I'd forget about this for the > time being if I were you. Getting OL 2.4.x working correctly is far more > important than subjectively choosing a db4 version. Patched 4.2.52 works > fine for now, I'm sure Buchan will get around to incorporating 4.6 as > soon as possible.
My 2.4.7 packages now ship db-4.6. I will thus incorporate Howard's fix from CVS in my packages shortly.
