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<H2><A NAME="s2">2.</A> <A HREF="xca.html#toc2">Updating from older versions</A></H2>

<P>Older versions of XCA used a Berkely database for storing the crypto items.
Starting from version 0.6.0 this has changed to a simple
endian independent file format for several reasons:
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<LI>The Berkeley db API was a moving target and every distribution had different versions installed.
Handling all versions well ended up in an "#ifdef hell"
where every second build failure was based on a different API in an other db version.</LI>
<LI>The database got corrupted if a log.0000001 file was deleted.</LI>
<LI>copying a database from one place to another was only possible, if
the log file was also copied. This breaks the approach of having
one single, simpe file containing the crypto items.</LI>
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<P>Since XCA 0.6.0 is not compiled with Berkeley DB support it cannot read old
file formats. The extension of files has changed from *.db to *.xdb .
Importing old databases is done by the following steps:
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<LI>Use db_dump of your distribution to dump the database to an ASCII file.
(Windows users will find a db_dump.exe in the XCA installation dir).
The command is: db_dump -f xca.db.dump xca.db</LI>
<LI>Start XCA and open a new database (e.g. xca.xdb). XCA asks for a
password for this new, empty database.</LI>
<LI>Point your mouse to "File->Import old db_dump" and select the file "xca.db.dump"</LI>
<LI>XCA now asks for the password of the ORIGINAL database, since the ASCII
dump still contains the private keys encrypted with the password.</LI>
<LI>Enjoy XCA 0.6.0</LI>
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