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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2008-11-19T11·58+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2008-11-19T11·58+0000
commit07d3a38726aeb9544212c14c8db5bdcdb7da785b (patch)
treeda7b6d72bc47c67663424432c91308a2bf81a45f /doc/manual/installation.xml
parentf5325d292d79f174f73b35ed886ae83bb80896cc (diff)
* Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the
  troubleshooting section.  W00t.

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@@ -96,18 +96,23 @@ ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't.  Note that these are only required if you
 modify the parser or when you are building from the Subversion
 repository.</para>
 
-<para>Nix uses Sleepycat's Berkeley DB, CWI's ATerm library and the
-bzip2 compressor (including the bzip2 library).  These are included in
-the Nix source distribution.  If you build from the Subversion
-repository, you must download them yourself and place them in the
+<para>Nix uses CWI's ATerm library and the bzip2 compressor (including
+the bzip2 library).  These are included in the Nix source
+distribution.  If you build from the Subversion repository, you must
+download them yourself and place them in the
 <filename>externals/</filename> directory.  See
 <filename>externals/Makefile.am</filename> for the precise URLs of
 these packages.  Alternatively, if you already have them installed,
 you can use <command>configure</command>'s
-<option>--with-bdb</option>, <option>--with-aterm</option> and
-<option>--with-bzip2</option> options to point to their respective
-locations.  Note that Berkeley DB <emphasis>must</emphasis> be version
-4.5; other versions may not have compatible database formats.</para>
+<option>--with-aterm</option> and <option>--with-bzip2</option>
+options to point to their respective locations.</para>
+
+<para>If you want to be able to upgrade Nix stores from before version
+0.12pre12020, you need Sleepycat's Berkeley DB version version 4.5.
+(Other versions may not have compatible database formats.).  Berkeley
+DB 4.5 is included in the Nix source distribution.  If you do not need
+this ability, you can build Nix with the
+<option>--disable-old-db-compat</option> configure option.</para>
 
 </section>