Re: rebuilding (RewriteMap) databases

On Fri 08/May/2026 12:33:42 +0200 Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> I recently read this after a package update:
> 
> Message from apache24-2.4.67_1:
> --
> The default database format was changed from BerkeleyDB 5
> (deprecated) from ports to BerkeleyDB 1 from base libc.


Most distros are now using db5.3.  By "BerkeleyDB 1" I guess they mean db1.85, 
a much older version.  What is the purpose of such backward change?


> What is the procedure rebuilding (RewriteMap) databases?


Apache should distribute an httxt2dbm tool to write the database from a text 
file.  The text file could be obtained via db5.3_dump, I'd guess.


Best
Ale
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