Re: CLD doesn't build on db-4.3

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:48 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:

> >      It won't build on db-4.4, either. probably won't build on db-4.5, as
> > db-5.0 says DBC->xxx was introduced in db-4.6. :-) Should we disable
> > support for 4.3 - 4.5 and add 4.9 - 5.0?
> 
> I'd answer "yes", by a circuitous route:  if I understand things 
> correctly, the replicated PAXOS db4 backend that we are heading towards 
> (see the 'replica' branch of 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/daemon/cld/cld.git) was buggy in early db4 
> releases.

> Therefore, it sounds like we could eliminate two issues with a single 
> change, by removing support for db 4.3 - 4.5, the DBC issue and the 
> PAXOS issue.

RHEL 5 ships with db4-4.3.29-10.el5 (I checked for Bo's problem
this morning), so dropping 4.3 will make RHEL 5 unsupportable.
Just a point to consider.

-- Pete