db44: replace with db48

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Only has 4 dependents. Any objection to me changing them over?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

There may be reasons why sometimes older BerkeleyDB versions are preferred over newer ones. Certainly I could understand if a port wanted BerkeleyDB 4 instead of 5 or 6, but even within the minor version numbers there seems to be some occurrence of that. Twice as many ports currently use db46 as use db48. Marius even deliberately changed mod_qos from db48 to db46 though I don't know why. (Marius, do you remember?)

I wonder if we should perhaps be trying to consolidate the BDB versions a bit more, and offer only db4, db5, and db6 ports for the latest version of each, and try to fix whatever issues the ports might have with those latest versions. It would help if there were a single maintainer for all the BDB ports who could guide the collection as a whole, instead of having each version maintained by someone else.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

IIRC, mod_qos failed to build against db48.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

Actually, the Berkeley db version for mod_qos should match apr-util which is a apache2 dependency, and thus a mod_qos dependency.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to ryandesign:

Twice as many ports currently use db46 as use db48.

Mostly because that was the current version last time someone did this, IIRC.

I wonder if we should perhaps be trying to consolidate the BDB versions a bit more, and offer only db4, db5, and db6 ports for the latest version of each, and try to fix whatever issues the ports might have with those latest versions.

This was going to be the first step of easing my way into that much larger project, but sure.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

I just locally rebuilt apr-util and mod_qos against db48. No problems here!

See: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3124

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

In 5ddb6e45c74db5e9a48f612c3d49a11eddb1b4c2/macports-ports (master):

apr-util, mod_qos, subversion: use Berkeley db48, add mode line

See: #57707

subversion: use db48

subversion-bindings: use db48

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In b9bf727466d8baa85530af49053de2a15e03599c/macports-ports (master):

cyrus-imapd: use db48, https

See: #57707

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In d5ff12dd08ee8273ef4bfb8b692da119f5ec7943/macports-ports (master):

redland: add db48 variant, obsolete db44

See: #57707

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 8d6178449dfda1925080372d8d35725b72d467d1/macports-ports (master):

open-cobol: now gnucobol, update to 2.2

Also use db48.
See: #57707

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 31f87f5ae644dc7b5b21bad29f485ea57f5ec94f/macports-ports (master):

cfengine: update to 2.2.10

Also use db48.
See: #57707

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

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[tobypeterson]

I didn't even see this ticket, I just periodically see if it's possible to move to newer dbXX versions. Looks like you did all the real work for me!