[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Gentoo/portage tree for evergreen

[Mike Rylander]

On 1/3/07, Eric Lesage <lesagee at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Bill Erickson wrote:
>
> > On 1/2/07, Eric Lesage <lesagee at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >> - The libdbi that will wind up being used is the version that happens to
> >> be stable on your platform according to the official tree. Unfortunately,
> >> I've encountered too many problems at this time to include a custom
> >> version.
> >
> >
> > Hmm.  Does the custom version of libdbi install OK if it's installed after
> > the ebuild runs?
>
> I'm not sure how to answer your question: to recap, I've fetched a CVS
> snapshot of libdbi and it presented the problems on the wiki (i.e. LaTeX
> problems), but it also didn't compile (being on x86_64 probably didn't
> help). It's probably not too difficult to fix, but I didn't get around to
> it.

There should be a couple patches in CVS for libdbi, actually.  Bill?

>
> Now, if your question is what would happen if a correctly patched up
> version of libdbi were installed after installing the evergreen ebuild,
> then I would expect evergreen to use the newly installed version, as long
> as the soname of the libdbi library remained the same (just like for a
> manual install).
>
> What improvements yet unreleased are important for evergreen?
>

Timezone handling on TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE columns works now, and
there is some autoinc (aka, SERIAL in Postgres)  support for Pg 8+.

> Regards,
>
> --
> Eric Lesage
>


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