[CentOS] Linking against a specific Berkeley DB install

[Karanbir Singh]

Les Mikesell wrote:
>>Only that many people on this list have been ignorant of what
>>NsDS is in the past, even though it's in major use --
>>especially before even the appearance of ADS in Windows 2000,
>>let alone how well it does integrate it for ADS-to/from-NsDS
>>synchronization.  I.e., NsDS can run on Windows too, and
>>Fedora makes those binaries available.
>>
>>I don't know if I'd trust the FDS 1.0 "open source" version
>>yet, as it's missing components last time I checked, but the
>>FDS binaries?  100% NsDS 7.1 -- Linux, Windows, Solaris,
>>etc...
> 
> 
> I thought the point of it being a 1.0 release meant that
> all the parts were done.  But I'm not sure how it fits
> into the RHEL or Centos world.  Is some maintained version
> likely to end up in the Centos extras repository?
> 

Upstream is making binaries avaiable for El3/ EL4 that work fine with 
CentOS - the build process, at this stage, is non-trivial and unless we 
have someone come on board who understands the issues involved and can 
work the source code of FDS, I'd hesitate to import it into the CentOS 
repositories.

I, for one, have no clue about that source base.... if anyone here has 
an idea of whats going on, feel free to drop in on #centos-devel at 
irc://irc.freenode.net/ and say hi to either Johnny ( hughesjr on irc ) 
or Jim Perrin ( Evolution on irc ).

as for it being a 'maintained' version ? well, again - maintained at 
upstream would be a better idea.

- K