Re: postfix-3.11.4,1 does not work with lmdb-1.0.0,1, requires 0.93.5,1

Michael Grimm <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jul 2026 11:09:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Einar Bjarni Halldórsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/3/26 11:47 PM, Jordan M wrote:

>> Following up from an issue raised over with Arch Linux[1] about postfix, knot, bogofilter, et al not working with lmdb 1.0.0, I tested on FreeBSD and confirmed lmdb-1.0.0 silently breaks consumers that work with 0.93.5 in a way not fixed by rebuilding after a library version bump.
>> Can we get databases/lmdb reverted to 0.93.5, and 1.0.0 added as a separate origin?
>> 
> 
> I agree with this. Upgrading lmdb broke both knot3 and bind920 for me. I've fixed it by downgrading lmdb in a ports-overlay tree that poudriere uses.

Thanks to Jordan for the heads up and thanks for your solution with a port overlay. 

I always wanted to try overlays, now it was time to implement an overlay ports tree. Not only for databases/lmdb and all my other modifications/additions as well. Nice feature.

Regards,
Michael