Re: [Sks-devel] Min. Requirement for SKS Version in the Pool

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Jun 25, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Phil Benchoff wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 09:20:07PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>> As of *1. August 2012* I intend to change the minimum version for
>> qualification in the pool to 1.1.3.
> 
> Our keyserver runs on Centos 5.7.  The distribution BDB is 4.3.29 and we
> have ocaml 3.12.0.  The server is a VM.
> 
> * Is there a suggested version of BDB other than >= 4.6?  Any reason to 
>  pick 4 versus 5?

Centos 5.7 ships many versions of Berkeley DB for "compatibility",
not just db-4.3.29 uses in "system" db for clueless/busted versions
of software that continues to build with
        #include <db.h>

Instead, add db-5.3.x that installs into /usr/include/db53 and
add -I/usr/include/db53 to build flags.

Shared llbraries will not collide, and linkage flags should be  -ldb-5.3,
and pristine "vendor" software will not be disturbed whatsoever.

> * Is there any need to build ocaml 3.12.1?

This I can't answer for sure, but I suspect you will need 3.12.1.

> * It looks like there is a patch for the VM clock issue.  Is it in 1.1.3?

VM time skew was a big deal around RHEL5 iirc, and it may be fixed
in the kernel. I personally haven'y seen time skew issues running in
CentOS VM's in 2y without any patching.

But Phil Pennock's patch was posted in the last 4 weeks, quite easy,
in archives.

hth

73 de Jeff