db-compat

[Rich Megginson]

Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:03:44AM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It would seem we're no longer shipping libdb-4.1.so, whereas we do have
>>> 4.2, 4.3, and 4.5 in that db4 compatibility package. I wound up just
>>> stealing the binary from an older RPM and copying it in place.
>>>
>>> Anyway, software like Xilinx's ISE/EDK would like it back :)
>>>
>>> Jon.
>>>       
>> Jindrich Novy, can you package it for us, please ?
>> Xilinx ISE/EDK is also an important tool for me :)
>>     
>
> not a problem. I needed to change the compat-db structure anyway to be
> easily extendable for older BDBs. Actually the current rawhide
> compat-db is just a dummy package containing only Requires to
> compat-db45 and compat-db46. It doesn't seem to be too hard to add
> compat-db41, 42 and 43 subpackages. But I will let the main compat-db
> be dependent on the 4.5 and 4.6 BDBs only, so that the older
> compat-dbs would need to be installed/required separately.
>   
Would it be possible to also have a compat-db-devel package that 
includes the db.h from the older releases?  Or does this sort of defeat 
the purpose of "compat"?
> HTH,
> Jindrich
>
>   
>> Chitlesh
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