On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:09 AM Filip Janus <fja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > as you maybe know the BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the > previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot > use it. > Few years ago there was an effort to reduce the number of dependent packages > on BerkeleyDB(libdb). And nowadays situation seems to be almost the same. > Here is > the link with packages dependent on libdb[1] from previous effort, which is > truthful for nowadays situation. As a member of the database team which is > responsible for libdb, I would like to know your opinions on this problem, > because many components have many specific cases where is libdb used. > > Nowadays we would like to remove libdb from Fedora as soon as possible, in > the best case from Fedora 33. But I am afraid, that it isn't real. > > I have discussed this issue with my colleagues and we propose an approach. We > found that the biggest problem would occur in updating components from > versions that support libdb to versions without this support. Here could > arise problems of inconsistency. > > Our approach assumes to convert old libdb databases to other supported > database format in each package related to this libdb issue. Result would be > Fedora without libdb. > I know that this approach probably isn't perfect. > > Therefore I would like to ask for Your opinions, suggestions and every > problem clarification. > Thank you very much for any help. I welcome every opinion. > > > [1] > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pkubat/Draft_-_Removing_BerkeleyDB_from_Fedora&rd=User%3AJstanek%2FDraft_-_Removing_BerkeleyDB_from_Fedora >
I'm very much in support of a plan for this. In my opinion, the sooner the better. At least for RPM, I have personally been testing the non-BDB backends since they were introduced in various environments. I'm currently using the NDB backend for a couple of projects (POSIX stack for Windows, and a devtool stack for macOS), and have been testing the SQLite backend in rpm git master since it was introduced a few months ago in a Linux distribution. Also in the RPM case, support recently landed for reading BDB rpmdb without libdb for supporting inspecting and converting from a BDB rpmdb. So it's technically possible to do a conversion from bdb to something else without libdb being linked to it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
