More questions about BDB
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon May 21 02:45:08 UTC 2007
Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 20), Sean Bryant said:
>> Just a personal curiosity. Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD
>> is holding on to BDB 1.85?
>
> All later versions have a non-BSD license (a source redistribution
> requirement was added), which means it can't go in the base system.
> BDB is built into libc and is used for the hashed passwd & termcap
> databases.
Correct.
BDB 1.85 is also packaged in gnu libc I believe, which makes it a more
portable means for representing databases without external libraries.
-Garrett
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