Re: request for help with subversion 1.1.0-rc2 Debian packages

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Greg Hudson wrote:

>> 2) I think it would be a good idea if packages of subversion without
>> the BDB dependency could be created.
>
>> Would different versions of all the Debian packages have to be
>> created in that case? Ie. libapache2-svn, python2.3-subversion,
>> subversion, libsvn0, subversion, libsvn0-dev, subversion,
>> subversion-tools, libsvn-core-perl.
>
> Not necessarily. If you build with --enable-dso (so that the RA and
> FS modules are loaded dynamically at runtime) and put the RA and FS
> modules in separate packages, the main package need not depend on
> anything beyond apr and apr-util.
>
> It doesn't look like David is currently doing things this way, though.

Yes, but would that make it possible to have a set of packages which
offered only fsfs support without requiring a dependency on BDB? Did you
have in mind two fs packages, one for fsfs and the other for BDB?

Any idea about the main packaging question? Thanks for replying.

                                                               Faheem.

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Received on Fri Aug 27 17:58:09 2004