[CentOS] Linking against a specific Berkeley DB install

Thu Dec 1 20:35:31 UTC 2005
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:24 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite at azapple.com]
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:01 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 12:19, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I was able to get OpenLDAP to compile against db4.3.  Any
> > > > particular reason it isn't recommended?
> > > 
> > > I see fedora directory server just made the 1.0 release.  Might
> > > that be a better choice?
> > > 
> > > http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page
> > > 
> > ----
> > I doubt that it would be a better choice but I would agree that it
> > is indeed a choice. One of those things where there isn't a black
> > and white better daemon. This however doesn't answer OP's question.
> 
> It is an interesting choice.  It supports multi-master replication
> which I will need and has some GUI management utilities.
> 
> Anyone know of any problems with it?
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Seems that it languished for a long time after Sun bought it from AOL
before Red Hat bought it from Sun (it was originally known as Netscape
Directory Server).

I don't think it supports schema checking. I got the impression that it
isn't that fast. I don't think that there are many people using the
newly revised open source version.

Craig