347237 – mail-mta/courier: it should be possible to build with sys-libs/db instead of gdbm

Bug 347237 - mail-mta/courier: it should be possible to build with sys-libs/db instead of gdbm

Summary: mail-mta/courier: it should be possible to build with sys-libs/db instead of ...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Hanno Böck

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Reported:	2010-11-30 03:06 UTC by Alec Meyers
Modified:	2022-04-10 15:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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berkeley db support for courier ebuild (courier-0.65.2.ebuild.db.patch,1.21 KB, patch) 2010-12-16 12:48 UTC, Matus UHLAR - fantomas	Details \| Diff
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Description Alec Meyers 2010-11-30 03:06:50 UTC

According to the courier-mta documentation, courier can use either gdbm or berkeley db:

"The Courier mail server requires either the GDBM or the DB database library. GDBM is used if both are present. This option forces the selection of the database library." ( http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html#configure )

Is there any reason why the Gentoo ebuild forces gdbm to be used ( --with-db=gdbm )?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Matus UHLAR - fantomas 2010-12-16 12:48:40 UTC

Created attachment 257311 [details, diff]
berkeley db support for courier ebuild

Comment 2 Alec Meyers 2022-04-10 13:17:06 UTC

Shouldn't this be closed as WONTFIX considering the courier package never did get berkdb support?

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2022-04-10 15:02:07 UTC

(In reply to Alec Meyers from comment #2)
> Shouldn't this be closed as WONTFIX considering the courier package never
> did get berkdb support?

Sorry, yes, I was skimming and saw:

$ grep -rsin "sys-libs/db" --include="*.ebuild" | grep courier
net-libs/courier-authlib/courier-authlib-0.71.3-r2.ebuild:23:   !gdbm? ( sys-libs/db:= )
net-libs/courier-authlib/courier-authlib-0.71.0-r4.ebuild:23:   !gdbm? ( sys-libs/db:= )
net-mail/courier-imap/courier-imap-5.1.7.ebuild:27:     berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:= )
net-mail/courier-imap/courier-imap-5.1.3-r1.ebuild:27:  berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:= )
net-mail/courier-imap/courier-imap-5.1.2-r1.ebuild:27:  berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:= )
net-mail/courier-imap/courier-imap-5.1.4.ebuild:27:     berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:= )