[Evolution-users] Question regarding database format used by EDS for contacts

[Ray Culp]

Thank you so much for this information! It's exactly what I was looking 
for! :-)

> By the way, why do you want to know such low-level thing, please?
I'm trying to get the best understanding possible of Syncevolution from 
the perspective of an administrator, so that I can write a tutorial on 
how to automate synchronization with a CardDav server on Ubuntu Touch (UT).

UT recently migrated from Ubuntu 16 to 20 as the underlying system.

As a consequence, cron is no longer included as part of the UT OS, so 
older tutorials on how to automate syncing between EDS and a CardDav 
server need to be updated to use a systemd timer and service instead of 
cron.

While working on this, I noticed the contacts.db files that were being 
created by

> *syncevolution --create-database backend=evolution-contacts 
> database=myDatabase
> *
actually appeared to be SQLite3.

Thanks again!


On 24/04/2023 17:33, Milan Crha via evolution-users wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-04-24 at 16:32 +0200, Ray Culp wrote:
>> My understanding is that Berkeley DB uses its own file format, which
>> is different from SQLite, so they can't be identical, can they?
> 	Hi,
> you are right, they are different formats.
>
>> Has Berkeley DB been replaced by SQLite for EDS contacts?
> Correct again, it happened few years ago.
>
>> Is Berkeley DB still used for some other purpose?
> Correct again, it's used only as a way to migrate old (BerkeleyDB)
> format to the new format (SQLite3). The libdb dependency is optional,
> the eds can be built without it.
>
> By the way, why do you want to know such low-level thing, please?
>
> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
>
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