On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:36:52AM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Geert Hendrickx wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages:
> > Another argument is that I wouldn't like important databases to be
> > dump-restored with incompatible versions of db4 in an automated way.  
> > I wouldn't mind taking some time to do that manually. :-)  
> 
> Well, maybe I shouldn't have implied an automagic backup - I'm just thinking
> out loud, figuring out a way how to make that manual backup somewhat 
> less painful.
> 
> For the average user, most db4 usage is in dependencies. It would be really
> great if I could retrieve a list of known, system-wide db4 databases. 
> 
> (And it would be even better if db4 was backwards compatible, but I guess
>  I'm preaching to the converted ;)

Hm, maybe all db4-dependants could have a "list-db4-locations" target in
their Makefile, which tells you where the databases (supposedly) are,
just as an indication.  This target could then be called recursively
from databases/db4 itself.

GH

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