[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse audio and NFS home directories. (PACKAGERS, READ THIS!)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 14.05.09 01:31, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 13.05.09 20:10, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:
> 
> > gdbm should probably be considered obsolete and this is just another
> > indication that there is every reason to consider it so.
> > 
> > There have been plans to abstract the db interfacing in pa as a new
> > pa_database API. We probably should do that and then switch to tdb as
> > default backend on Linux. Always happy to take patches.
> 
> I have now implemented this. PA git can now use either gdbm or tdb as
> database backend. The latter is the default.
> 
> When distributions package the upcoming PA 0.9.16 they should replace
> the gdbm dependency by a tdb dependency, unless they care about the
> contents of the state database. Usually this however pretty boring
> information, so I'd just ignore this issue, and just start anew with
> the tdb database. That's at least what I will be doing Fedora.

Oh, and of course, those who want neither depend on tdb nor gdbm can
add an additional backend. Writing backends is now very very
easy. Solaris folks, want ndbm backend? Happy to take patches!

Lennart

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