Re: dblibs

[Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu>]

Hi, this has questions for mentors and the mentee.

> Date:    Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:03:54 CDT
> To:      debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> From:    Kermit Tensmeyer <kermit@brite.net>
> Subject: dblibs
> 
>  Can someone explain to me, the hows and whys of libdb and libdb2 as
> used in Debian 2.1.
> 
>   It seems that a fair number of program, utilities and 'features'
> seem to use the 1.85 version, but there is also a 2.4.14 set in
> /usr/lib, and a symbolic link to libdb2.
> 
>   How does all this fit together?

TO MENTORS: It seems to me that both lib pkgs can coexist on a system. Is that
true?

>  I tried to upgrade a system (libdb 2.7.5 libdb.a libdb.so, and
> include files), for building perl5, apache and mod-perl, but a number
> of items broke almost at once.

TO MENTEE: What did you do to upgrade? install a package or 2? compile source?

-Jim