On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > > Am 11.01.2016 um 17:26 schrieb Kalev Lember: >> >> On 01/11/2016 03:46 PM, Jan Kurik wrote: >>> >>> = Proposed System Wide Change: Change Proposal Name NewRpmDBFormat = >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewRpmDBFormat >>> >>> Change owner(s): >>> * Florian Festi < ffesti AT redhat DOT com > >>> >>> >>> Change format of the RPM Database from Berkeley DB to RPM's own format. >>> >>> == Detailed Description == >>> The current implementation of the RPM Database is based on Berkeley >>> DB. There are doubts about the its future and level of maintenance. In >>> addition rpm's use of the database has multiple issues on its own. As >>> a result RPM upstream is working to replace the database format with a >>> new implementation. >> >> >> Is the new database going to be able to support yumdb use cases as well? >> Might be a good time to get rid of separate rpmdb and yumdb and merge >> them together. > > > please don't do that > > the yumdb is bloat because it contains a endless history and that's growing > on machines after 10, 20 or more dist-upgrades while currently it's easy to > get rid of that bload by just rm -rf /var/lib/yum/* and/or rm -rf > /var/lib/dnf/* >
If they were merged, I suspect they'd add a command for cleaning up history that you could use. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
