On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com> wrote:
> On 1/12/16 2:06 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: > > In regard to: Re: RPM sqlite3 support, Jeffrey Johnson said (at 12:46pm > on...: > > > >> The sqlite3 code (and support) in rpm5 was abandoned in favor of > >> Berkeley DB ACID transactional support quite some years ago > > > > I've been meaning to ask about this for a while, and this provides a > > good segue... > > > > With Oracle's license change on BDB 6.x (or 12.x, or whatever they're > > calling it) to AGPL, does that impact rpm5's long-term use of BDB? > > I know we and many of our commercial customers has rejected BDB 6.x > because of > the change, so we've been forced to 'support' BDB 5.x. > > Personally I would like to get rid of anything that has to do with > BerkeleyDB, > just to get rid of this or future license questions from customers. (But > unfortunately I don't know what can reasonably replace BDB.) > Hello FWIW, @rpm.org started a plan to replace the rpmdb format https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewRpmDBFormat Here the original announcement http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/215427 Currently no details are known (to me) Elia > > --Mark > > > Tim > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org >
