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

Jordan M <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jul 2026 10:04:33 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-07-04 2:40, Michael Grimm wrote:
> Jordan M <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> Now, I found in UPDATING (should have looked earlier):
> 
> <snip>
> 20260702:
>    AFFECTS: users of databases/lmdb
[...]
> That would be a whole lotta work for my numerous knot3 and
> postfix-current lmdb databases at some servers ...
If the files used by the port are the same format that mdb_dump can 
read.  AFAICT that's not the case for postfix.  I couldn't get mdb_dump 
to recognize the postmap-generated file as a valid database.