Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that > cannot reasonably be discarded and rebuilt from scratch for new > versions of that software, without Berkeley DB entirely, as part of a > Fedora release? One problem is the upgrade path - there's no way to know all the things that are currently stored in BDB files, and once upgraded, there's not going to be a way to get the data out. Some BDBs are built from other data files (and can be rebuilt, although there's no way to know all the things and trigger such rebuilds automatically), but some are directly edited. Part of the attraction of BDB files was that they could be easily updated from programs/scripts for use by other programs/scripts. postfix and sendmail both use BDB files for maps. IIRC sendmail just supports a single map database library at a time, configured at build time (can be GDBM or BDB). postfix supports some alternates, but BDB is considered the standard (and changing to anything else requires modifying configuration before rebuilding maps). I think exim is similar (I'm just not as familiar with it). Not all things that use BDB even support alternates (or dump and restore of data files), for example arpd from iproute. Also, since the scripting languages (python/php/perl) have supported it as a service-free simple DB, there's going to be an unknown number of scripts that use it that aren't packaged as part of the distribution. BDB is kind of a part of the collective history of Unix systems and assumed to always be available. Is there nobody interested in maintaining the final license-compatible version in a pure bugfix mode? Does it get that many bugs? -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
