ChangeLog
2012/01/15 - Change home page URL from the one shown below to
http://www.oracle.com/products/database/berkeley-db/overview/
- Updated Slackware note for 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and 14.0,
removed older
2009/02/19 - Changed home page URL from
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db.html
to
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/
- Updated Slackware note for 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2,
removed older than 11.0
- Updated download URLs with the new Oracle ones
- Clarified the inscructions at the bottom a bit
- Added 4.7.25 + 3 patches
- Removed 4.3.29, 4.2.52, 4.1.25, and 4.0.14
Apr 24, 2007 - Changed home page URL from
http://www.sleepycat.com/
to
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db.html
- Added 4.5.20 + 2 patches
Aug 4, 2006 - Added a 3rd patch for 4.1.25
- Added a 4th patch for 4.2.52
- Added a patch for 4.3.29
- 4.4.16 -> 4.4.20 + 4 patches
- Only update the current PATH if it's not
already in there
Jan 7, 2006 - Updated Slackware notes for 10.2
- 4.3.28 -> 4.3.29
- Added 4.4.16
- Only run removepkg if it exists
- Don't run find twice when you don't have to (find /foo,
find /foo2 -> find /foo /foo2)
- Minor updates to the 'get it noticed' part
- Hit enter between applying each patch
Jul 17, 2005 - Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils links
- Added 4.3.28
- Updated download URLs
- Added md5sum verification of tarballs
- Added 4 patches for 4.2.52
- Added a 2nd patch for 4.1.25
- Updated Slackware note for 10.0 and 10.1
- Updated the notes at the bottom
Dec 23, 2003 - Updated notes about openldap and 4.0.x/4.1.x at the top
- Create ~/installed with mode 700
- Added two configure options that Slack uses:
--enable-compat185 and --enable-rpc
- Added notes about the versions of db that Slack includes
- Added 'removepkg db4'
- Added some notes about the default prefix
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.X.X and /usr
- Added a 3rd version, 4.2.52
- Added a patch for 4.1.25
Mar 28, 2003 - Fixed the "for everything to use" part for 4.0.14 and the
download URL for 4.0.14 has changed (Thanks to Charles
Bedrosian for letting me know)
- Set to re-use existing tarballs before wget'ing
Dec 31, 2002 - Updated the "Get db4 noticed" part
Dec 30, 2002 - Updated db3 -> db4 instructions at bottom:
Also back up /usr/bin/db_* instead of deleting them
Back up /usr/lib/libdb.a too, replace it with a symlink to
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0/lib/libdb.a
- Added a 2nd set of instructions for db 4.1.25 (I'll remove
4.0.14 after I test 4.1.25 for a while)
- Added removal of old tarballs and source dirs (old 4.0
ones in the 4.0 section, old 4.1 ones in the 4.1 section)
Oct 17, 2002 - Updated instructions for replacing the Slack-installed db3
with this installation of db4