On Friday 11 January 2008 01:39:45 Tony Earnshaw wrote:
On both platforms I insist on rpms, right? I use Buchan Milne's OL srpms, available at http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/. The srpms get rebuilt on my systems; it's often only necessary to substitute latest source in the rpm spec; sometimes more work is necessary.
Buchan delivers discrete db4 stuff (as well as OL stuff) that can never conflict with Red Hat's. Obviously it's in many ways a compromise, but this approach does mean that it can exist together with Red Hat's on the same machine.
Lastly, you want to use db4 4.6, right? I'd forget about this for the time being if I were you. Getting OL 2.4.x working correctly is far more important than subjectively choosing a db4 version. Patched 4.2.52 works fine for now, I'm sure Buchan will get around to incorporating 4.6 as soon as possible.
My 2.4.7 packages now ship db-4.6. I will thus incorporate Howard's fix from CVS in my packages shortly.