From ba84434b25ab7fc5554b059f0882e86fc0c364a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan McDowell Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:38:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README a little. Few minor updates to README file; db3 -> db4, use of configure, add fs backend details. --- README | 25 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index a81e8a5..d70059f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -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 @@ -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 -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: @@ -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. -* 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 - 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. +* 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: -- 2.39.5