Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 10:10:03AM -0500, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 09:32:04AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com said: The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Jan Synacek jsyna...@redhat.com wrote: Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com writes: Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-09 Thread Petr Spacek
On 8.1.2015 14:56, Jan Staněk wrote: Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good - or at least trim down the list of

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-09 Thread Jan Synacek
Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com writes: Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good - or at least trim down the list of

Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Jan Staněk
Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good - or at least trim down the list of packages dependent on it as much as possible.

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.01.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com said: The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was already discussed at this list [1], and it turned out that peaceful cooperation of multiple libdb versions in system is very problematic. As some packages

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com wrote: However, as I have only very hazy ideas on how some of the dependent packages are used or why they need libdb, I would like to ask for cooperation, ideally from the package maintainers themselves. The information on how to

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Tom Hughes
On 08/01/15 13:56, Jan Staněk wrote: However, as I have only very hazy ideas on how some of the dependent packages are used or why they need libdb, I would like to ask for cooperation, ideally from the package maintainers themselves. The information on how to remove dependency, what would need

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.01.2015 um 16:10 schrieb David Cantrell: On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 09:32:04AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Why does v6 having an incompatible license mean we should get rid of v5? BerkeleyDB is widely used because it meets a

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Rich Megginson
On 01/08/2015 06:56 AM, Jan Staněk wrote: Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good - or at least trim down the list of

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com said: The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was already discussed at this list [1], and it turned out that peaceful cooperation of multiple libdb versions in system is very problematic. As some packages cannot use newer versions, we are basically

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com said: The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was already discussed at this list [1], and it turned out that peaceful cooperation of multiple libdb versions in system is very

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Florian Weimer
On 01/08/2015 02:56 PM, Jan Staněk wrote: Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good - or at least trim down the list of

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Florian Weimer
On 01/08/2015 04:10 PM, David Cantrell wrote: It's not a drop-in replacement, but I have seen sqlite be a viable option for projects wanting some database library and wanting a stable API. Many upstream projects that can use berkdb have grown sqlite support as an option. And SQLite shares

Re: Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 09:32:04AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Jan Staněk jsta...@redhat.com said: The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was already discussed at this list [1], and it turned out that peaceful