retitle 310793 [Release notes] perl DB_File migration from 2.0 to 4.2 thanks On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:58:28PM -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > Just went through a woody->sarge update, and pretty much everything > went fine, with one exception. I have a perl script that manages some > data on this server via DB_File. As per perl's changelog, since the > last woody release: > > "NOTE: DB_File now uses libdb4.0 (previously libdb2). Any DB_File > databases created with earlier perl packages will need to be upgraded > before being used with the current module with the db4.0_upgrade > program (in the libdb4.0-util package, with HTML docs in db4.0-doc)." > > This procudure successfully recovered data I thought for some time was > lost. Unfortunately this was not mentioned in the upgrade process, and > appears to not be mentioned anywhere other than this 2+year old > changelog comment, which I found only by googling. > > I don't know if there's a "known upgrade issues" document somewhere ( > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > doesn't seem to mention in), but this should probabbly be documented > as a heads-up for people who will run into the same problem, if not > brought up in a notification at perl upgrade time.
Hello Jeremy, following your mail to debian-devel, I have raised the issue on debian-doc (in charge of the release notes). At this stage, we are mostly looking for a wording. See the thread at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2005/05/msg00277.html> Thanks a lot for this proposal! -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
