First cut at cleanup infrastructure.

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-onak 0.2.1
-Copyright 2003 Project Purple. Written by Jonathan McDowell
+onak 0.3.0
+Copyright 2003-2004 Project Purple. Written by Jonathan McDowell

 http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html
 
 
 http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html
 
 


@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ replacement for pksd, which I was running (and still am).
 Installation:
 
 onak has been mainly developed under Linux with a bit of work on FreeBSD
 Installation:
 
 onak has been mainly developed under Linux with a bit of work on FreeBSD

-at times also. It's i386 specific at present thanks to the bit of
-assembly in bithelp.h. Feel free to submit a patch for your arch. :)
+at times also. It should run on all architectures, but has only been
+tested on i386 and PowerPC so far.

 
 

-Typing "make" should produce a version of onak with support for the DB3
-backend. If you want to choose a different backend (see below for a
-discussion about the options) you'll need to edit the Makefile first.
+Typing "./configure && make" should produce a version of onak with
+support for the DB4 backend. If you want to choose a different backend
+(see below for a discussion about the options) you'll need to pass the
+appropriate option to ./configure.

 
 Once make has completed you'll end up with various binaries:
 
 
 Once make has completed you'll end up with various binaries:
 


@@ -79,12 +80,18 @@ Currently there is support for 4 different database backends:
   keyid - no key updating or searching by key test. Found to be
   tempramental and prone to deadlock in the db2 library.
 
   keyid - no key updating or searching by key test. Found to be
   tempramental and prone to deadlock in the db2 library.
 

-* db3 (Berkeley libdb3)
+* db4 (Berkeley libdb4)

   The currently preferred backend. Supports the full range of functions
   like the pg backend but is considerably faster. Also easier to setup
   The currently preferred backend. Supports the full range of functions
   like the pg backend but is considerably faster. Also easier to setup

-  assuming you have libdb3 installed; there's no need to have an SQL
+  assuming you have libdb4 installed; there's no need to have an SQL

   database running and configured.
 
   database running and configured.
 

+* fs (file backend)
+  A fuller featured file based backend. Doesn't need any external
+  libraries and supports the full range of operations (such as text and
+  subkey searching). Needs a good filesystem to get good performance
+  though as it creates many, many files and links.
+

 
 Other keyservers:
 
 
 Other keyservers: