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

[John Clizbe]

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?

Oracle bumped things from 4 to 5, but it's sometimes useful to think of 5.0 as
4.10, 5.1 -> 4.11, etc. The upgrade was nothing more than a logfile change
accomplished with db_checkpoint.  Upgrading from 4.3, I suggest checking the
release notes, as that's what I would also have to do.

> * Is there any need to build ocaml 3.12.1?

1.1.3 /should/ build with 3.10 or better. That said, neither Kristian nor I
tried earlier than 3.11.0. 3.12.0 should do fine.

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

The Unique_time patch is in the trunk,
https://bitbucket.org/yminsky/sks-keyserver/changeset/519df0a4cb46

To checkout: 'hg clone https://bitbucket.org/yminsky/sks-keyserver'

-John