On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:15:53PM +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > = System Wide Change: RPM 4.14 = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.14
The web page has: Improvements and stabilization of "ndb" (New RPM DB Format database format) ... Changing database from bdb to ndb requires patching of some programs who read/expect /var/lib/rpm/Packages and other files directly without using librpm which were not included in this email. The problem is that "NDB" is a custom homebrew database invented in the RPM codebase. I agree that because of licensing problems we need to move away from Berkeley DB, but why not switch to the obvious, bulletproof choice - Sqlite? Look at the all new nbd code here: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/tree/master/lib/backend/ndb Inventing a new database including a new disk format and all new code is bound to cause problems with database corruption, incorrect database synchronization, incorrect handling of parallel queries, and a rich source of other bugs for a long time. Not to mention ‘ndb requires patching of some programs who read/expect /var/lib/rpm/Packages and other files directly without using librpm’ - this would still require changes, but they are much smaller if you're using sqlite. It was a bad upstream decision, but it's not too late to avoid it by sticking with BDB for now and using sqlite in the long run. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
