Fedora Core 2 Berkeley problems

[Todd Slater]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:08:24PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:32:49 -0500
> Todd Slater wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:40:47AM -0800, Chris Wilkes wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote:
> > > > With 0.93.1, built from .tar.gz.
> 
> ...[snip]...
> 
> > The specific error I get when trying bogoutil -d is DB_ENV->open, err:
> > 22, Invalid argument
<snip> 
> Does the message appear with a plain old "bogoutil -d wordist.db"
> command?

Yes, I was attempting to update/convert my old wordlist.db with 
bogoutil -d wordlist.db >wordlist.txt

> > > You might try downloading the DB4.2 source from
> > >   http://sleepycat.com/download/db/index.shtml
> > > and trying to make an RPM out of it to install.
> > 
> > I think that's a bit beyond my ability just yet. Good-ish news is that
> > an RPM for 0.92.8 works OK. Go figure.
> 
> 0.92.8 working fine is not at all surprising.  The changes to support
> transactions are quite large.  BerkeleyDB appears to be evolving
> rapidly.  While that's probably a good thing, it makes life difficult
> for application that need to deal with the APIs (which change with
> every BerkeleyDB enhancement).  Without a doubt we've stepped into that
> tarpit with FC2.

Thanks for the explanation; I'm just happy to be using bogofilter as I
was afraid the BerkeleyDB error was going to preclude me from using
*any* version.

Best,
Todd