The following reply was made to PR pkg/32738; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32738: db4 upgrade to 4.4 breaks 4.3-based apps like cyrus-imapd
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:46:02 -0500 (EST)

 OK, some more info:
 
 default cyrus-imapd config has only a couple of berkeley DB files,
 they're all in /var/imap.
 But there's also some weird interaction between berkeley DB and the
 cyrus-unique skiplist database used for other databases.
 
 to convert the berkeley DBs:
 from 4.2 to 4.3 and 4.3 to 4.4, only the log file format changed, so you
 only need to run 'db4_recover -h /var/imap' with the *OLD db4 package*.
 
 Then for the skiplist files, it looks like you need to move /var/imap/db
 out of the way, recreate it (mode 0700, owner cyrus:mail).
 
 -- 
 ==John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>, <john_kohl@alum.mit.edu>
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