[oi-dev] 1262 Berkeley-db package

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Hi Jeff,

On 3 Oct 2011, at 21:12, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:06:47PM +0100, Bayard G. Bell wrote:
>> A few items, as much questions as anything else:
>> 
>> 1) given that you usually end up needing multiple bdbs, should the
>> standard here be to embed version components into the name?
> 
> Yeah... does pkg:/database/bdb-4.8 sound better?

As Guido mentioned:

pkg:/database/bdb-48

>> 2) is there any basis for thinking that bdb should only be built for
>> 32-bit support, or would we reasonably expect that 64-bit binaries would
>> need to link against it?
> 
> To give credit where credit is due...I based the package name and the lack
> of 64-bit build on oi-sfe. :)
> 
> I'm all for building it as both 32 and 64 bit.  If that turns out
> non-trivial, would anyone be opposed to getting a 32-bit build in, and then
> in a separate commit adding 64-bits build?

That would be fine - normally it's not too hard, configure.mk takes care of a lot of it.

>> 3) it looks like the default behaviour for library link generation is to
>> create links that look like lib<name>-<version>.so rather than
>> lib<name>.so.<version>; which convention is expected for OI?
> 
> I've noticed that this is Berkeley-db's way of doing things.  On a Linux
> box that I have, lib<name>-<version>.so is used too.
> 
> I suppose if we include the version number in the package name, then
> lib<name>.so would just work.
> 
>> 4) a lot of the content appears to be documentation; have you confirmed
>> that all of it is correctly tagged with the doc facet?
> 
> Will do.
> 
>> 5) I notice that there's documentation for csharp, but I wouldn't expect
>> that to be applicable to our build; if that's the case, is there
>> anything we can do to suppress the generation of such documentation
>> (stripping out of the manifests might also be an option)?
> 
> The sfe package has it.  I don't particularly care either way.

You can use a transform to drop them via a regex:

<transform file dir path=.+/docs/csharp/.* -> drop>

Cheers,

Alasdair