Re: problem with git-cvsserver

> On Thursday August 31st 2006 at 08:29 uur Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>   
>> [git-cvsserver and trouble with Perl DBI and SQLite]
>>
>> Actually, just looking at my etch dev box, libdbd-sqlite-perl is
>> 0.29-1 and sqlite is 2.8.16-1. Not sure if the difference is
>> significant. Perhaps SQLite v3 has a different invocation / driver
>> name?
>>     
>
> Yes, SQLite v2 and SQLite v3 are different and binary incompatible.
>
> However, on Debian 'etch' you can install packages for both versions
> concurrently; most packages for SQLite have either a '2' or a '3' in the
> name. Packages without the number use the "best current choice" which is
> "3" in 'etch' at the moment but was "2" not too long ago.
>
> So at this moment in Debian 'etch' SQLite3 is the default version and
> calling
>
>         my $dsn = 'dbi:SQLite:dbname=foo';
>
> will use the SQLite3 driver internally, for which you must have
> installed the "libdbd-sqlite3-perl" package. Just for the record, if
> you'd wanted the older SQLite2 version you would install the
> "libdbd-sqlite2-perl" package and from Perl call "my $dsn =
> 'dbi:SQLite2:dbname=foo';".
>
> I'd guess that you were unfortunate enough to just install some packages
> during the transition and now some parts look for the "2" version
> and other parts for the "3" version. Probably just installing the
> "libdbd-sqlite3-perl" package and upgrading the other sqlite packages
> (from synaptic say to easily find them!) will probably cure your situation.
>
> Incidentally I'd guess that in itself SQLite2 (so version 2) would also
> function perfectly well for git-cvsserver (as would PostgreSQL or
> MySQL), it's probably in this case just a slight version skew between
> packages!
>