Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

2017-01-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 01/16/2017 02:51 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/15/2017 04:03 PM, Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: I'm not sure how true it is, but it seems to bear out with the number of previously BDB users now being LMDB users.

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

2017-01-15 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/15/2017 04:03 PM, Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > >> I'm not sure how true it is, but it seems to bear out with the number of >> previously BDB users now being LMDB users. > > > Unless a different DB offers

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

2017-01-15 Thread Ørjan Malde
LMDB as an alternative to BDB would further help with targetting less-known and new platforms. and as far as I know, make RPM buildable and usable on midipix for example. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

2017-01-15 Thread Robert Scheck
At https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086784, there also was kind of discussion about that. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

2017-01-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/15/2017 04:03 PM, Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: I'm not sure how true it is, but it seems to bear out with the number of previously BDB users now being LMDB users. Unless a different DB offers substantial advantages over BDB to RPM, which does not endanger or destabilize rpm, I do not

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

2017-01-15 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
I think most of us are keenly aware that Berkeley DB 5.x is dead. While Oracle has Berkeley DB 6.x, it is licensed AGPLv3, which seems to make some people rather skittish. As a potential alternative, why not use [LMDB](https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/)? Projects