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kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

db upgrade: intervention required?

when i -Syu'd last night, db was upgraded to 4.7.25-2.  in the output from pacman, i see:

[2009-01-25 01:17] ATTENTION DB PACKAGE:
[2009-01-25 01:17] Please consider to run db_upgrade on Berkeley DB databases with a major db version number update.
[2009-01-25 01:17] upgraded db (4.7.25-1 -> 4.7.25-2)

i realize that this isn't a major version update, but it raises a question for me: would i have to run db_upgrade manually if there were a major version update?  and if so, where are (or how do i find) berkely db databases on my system?  i've never--to me knowledge--had to deal with them directly.

thanks for any info or pointers to info.

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: db upgrade: intervention required?

I have been curious about this myself the first times I saw this message. I was wondering if some apps used berkeley db databases and I just didn't know about it. But well I never saw any breakages caused by it so I never bothered to investigate

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kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: db upgrade: intervention required?

pacman -Qi db

shows:

Required By    : apache  apr-util  heimdal  libsasl  neon  pam  perl  python  
                 ruby  smbclient

i ran through the output of pacman -Ql for each of those packages.  that's a *lot* of files, but none of them looked like db files a quick glance.  without runnging 'file | grep -i berkeley' against the entire filesystem, i'm really not sure what to look for.

???

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[23:00:16]    dr_kludge | i want to invent an olfactory human-computer interface, integrate it into the web standards, then produce my own forked browser.
[23:00:32]    dr_kludge | can you guess what i'd call it?
[23:01:16]    dr_kludge | nosilla.
[23:01:32]    dr_kludge | i really should be going to bed.  i'm giggling madly about that.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,390

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Re: db upgrade: intervention required?

Another recent post on this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=63590

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