Bug 53866

Summary: Description should mention whether db4.1 format is compatible with db2/3 formats.
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Chris Pepper <pepper>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: matthias.andree
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Chris Pepper 2003-06-28 03:40:17 UTC 
	The db4.x descriptions should mention whether db4.x is backward-compatible with the db2/3 file format.

Fix: 

Add a note to pkg-descr explaining whehter or not db4.x is compatible with db2/3 files.
How-To-Repeat: 	Visit <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/databases/db41/pkg-descr>.
Comment 1 Matthias Andree 2003-06-29 17:51:58 UTC 
This is a maintainer-update patch to the db4, db41 and db41-nocrypto
ports to fix this issue:

diff -Nur /usr/ports/databases/db4/pkg-descr /root/db4/pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/databases/db4/pkg-descr	Mon Dec 24 11:45:45 2001
+++ /root/db4/pkg-descr	Sun Jun 29 18:47:40 2003
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
 databases, and a backwards compatible API is provided to maintain
 compatibility with programs using the v1.85 interface.
 
-There are minor interface changes in this release which may require that DB
-applications be modified and recompiled. For a complete discussion of
-interface changes, see:
-
-http://www.sleepycat.com/update/
+For details on compatibility with other DB versions, see:
+http://www.sleepycat.com/download/patchlogs.shtml
   
 WWW: http://www.sleepycat.com/
diff -Nur /usr/ports/databases/db41/pkg-descr /root/db41/pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/databases/db41/pkg-descr	Wed Jan  8 01:23:02 2003
+++ /root/db41/pkg-descr	Sun Jun 29 18:48:13 2003
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
 databases, and a backwards compatible API is provided to maintain
 compatibility with programs using the v1.85 interface.
 
-There are minor interface changes in this release which may require that DB
-applications be modified and recompiled. For a complete discussion of
-interface changes, see:
-
-http://www.sleepycat.com/update/
+For details on compatibility with other DB versions, see:
+http://www.sleepycat.com/download/patchlogs.shtml
   
 WWW: http://www.sleepycat.com/

-- 
Matthias Andree
Comment 2 Daichi GOTO freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-07-09 08:46:32 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed. Thanks!