BDB1 instead of BDB ?

Leo L.

Leo L.

Hi there,

I was wondering if someone knew about why there are ports with BDB1 selected by default (for example cyrus-sasl2 selected by default with bdb1 and not bdb) ?
Some other ports have bdb selected by default.

A bit of Googling hinted me that it has something to do with licensing questions, but what if I switch from BDB1 to BDB instead ?
What would be the real consequence for cyrus-sasl2 for example (or any other ports with BDB1 by default) ?

And ultimately, should I build all my ports with the same BDB version or can I have the two versions installed at the same time ?

Thanks :)

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Léo.
 
So the current version of bdb is 18.1.
Version 1.8 dates back to 1996. I would hesitate to use that (bdb1), even if it has a better license.

security/cyrus-sasl2 uses bdb1.
Code: 
====> SASLdb auxprop plugin: you can only select none or one of them 
BDB1=on: Berkeley DB 1.85 support 
BDB=off: Berkeley DB support

But I don't know much about databases. ^^
 
Hi George :)
Thanks for your feedback. You're right, I was about to select BDB instead of BDB1, but then told myself maybe there was a reason why BDB1 was selected by default for cyrus-sasl2.
Since two years, many ports I use have BDB1 selected by default, few other ones don't, and I'm wondering what to do in that case :
- switch to most recent version,
- or stick with the old one,
- or not even bother and always follow the recommended choice by default for each port.
 
Hi George,

I couldn't agree more, but in that case I wonder why a security port such as cyrus-sasl2 has BDB1 by default ?

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Léo.
 
Hello,

Thanks for moving that thread in the correct forum.
Hope that anyone can explain that odd default selected choice because I wonder that since 2 years or so without having a clue about their real differences.
 
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