Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 03:59, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On 1/17/20 3:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:16, Chris Adams wrote: > >> > >> Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia said: > >>> Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that > >>> cann

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 1/17/20 3:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:16, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia said: Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that cannot reasonably be discarded and rebuilt from scratch for new versions of that so

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:16, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia said: > > Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that > > cannot reasonably be discarded and rebuilt from scratch for new > > versions of that software, without Berkeley DB entirely,

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le jeudi 16 janvier 2020 à 20:52 -0700, Jerry James a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: > > The lack of a good backup tool for Berkeley DB earned me nearly a > > year > > of contracting salary from the BBC to keep alive an obsolete > > Berkeley > > DB and Apache

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-17 Thread Guido Aulisi
Ah, it permits linking only with GPLv3!!! ___ 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/ Li

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-17 Thread Guido Aulisi
Sorry if I misunderstood, but I thought BDB was licensed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3 [1]. Is that not correct? Ciao Guido [1]: https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/berkeleydb-oslicense.html ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.f

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nico Kadel-Garcia writes: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:53 PM Jerry James wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > The lack of a good backup tool for Berkeley DB earned me nearly a year > > > of contracting salary from the BBC to keep alive an obsolete Ber

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-17 Thread Petr Pisar
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:29:54AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that > cannot reasonably be discarded and rebuilt from scratch for new > versions of that software, without Berkeley DB entirely, as part of a > Fedora release? E.g

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia said: > Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that > cannot reasonably be discarded and rebuilt from scratch for new > versions of that software, without Berkeley DB entirely, as part of a > Fedora release? One problem is the upgrade

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:53 PM Jerry James wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > The lack of a good backup tool for Berkeley DB earned me nearly a year > > of contracting salary from the BBC to keep alive an obsolete Berkeley > > DB and Apache 1.3 on RHEL syst

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > The lack of a good backup tool for Berkeley DB earned me nearly a year > of contracting salary from the BBC to keep alive an obsolete Berkeley > DB and Apache 1.3 on RHEL systems long after httpd 2.x was released. > It was discarded by Su

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:17 PM Jerry James wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:09 AM Filip Janus 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. > >

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Simo Sorce
Would it be possible to have a libdb-compat package with the 5.x version to at least decouple the packages that are somewhat stuck with that version of libdb and the ones that can use newer version? I still need to figure out how sasl can switch databases, the problem is that I do not want to tras

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 15:42, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:57, Mark Reynolds wrote: > > > > > > On 1/16/20 2:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:35, Mark Reynolds wrote: > > >> 389 Directory Server (389-ds-base), aka Red Hat Directory S

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Reynolds
On 1/16/20 3:42 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:57, Mark Reynolds wrote: On 1/16/20 2:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:35, Mark Reynolds wrote: 389 Directory Server (389-ds-base), aka Red Hat Directory Server, is dependent on libdb. W

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:57, Mark Reynolds wrote: > > > On 1/16/20 2:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:35, Mark Reynolds wrote: > >> 389 Directory Server (389-ds-base), aka Red Hat Directory Server, is > >> dependent on libdb. We are currently working towards mov

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Reynolds
On 1/16/20 2:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:35, Mark Reynolds wrote: 389 Directory Server (389-ds-base), aka Red Hat Directory Server, is dependent on libdb. We are currently working towards moving to LMDB, but that work is probably a year away from being fully

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:35, Mark Reynolds wrote: > > 389 Directory Server (389-ds-base), aka Red Hat Directory Server, is > dependent on libdb. We are currently working towards moving to LMDB, but > that work is probably a year away from being fully complete. We are > hoping/planning to hav

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Reynolds
389 Directory Server (389-ds-base), aka Red Hat Directory Server, is dependent on libdb.  We are currently working towards moving to LMDB, but that work is probably a year away from being fully complete.  We are hoping/planning to have it done for the next major release of RHEL.  I would hope l

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:09 AM Filip Janus 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 dependen

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:09 AM Filip Janus 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 depen