On 01/11/2016 05:26 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: > 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.
No, this is a pretty straight forward replacement of the backend. While the whole area has still a lot the be desired this change only replaces the BDB. No other fancy changes. Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/ Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Charles Peters -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
