Re: dropping NSS DBM format support in F33+

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Hello Ondrej,

Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:12 PM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:50 PM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:12 AM Daiki Ueno <ueno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > I am not sure if this deserves a Fedora Change proposal, so I'd like to
>> > > hear any opinions first before proceeding with the process.
>> > >
>> > > NSS (the crypto library used by Firefox) historically supports 2
>> > > database formats: SQLite and DBM.  The latter is considered legacy and
>> > > we switched the default database format to SQLite in F28[1].  Since then
>> > > I presume most of the applications have switched to the new format.
>> > > Therefore we are planning to phase out the support of DBM, targetting
>> > > F33+.
>> > >
>> > > Please let me know if there is any concern.
>> >
>> > It seems this broke the kernel build. I did some scratch build today
>> > to test some patches, but it failed with this:
>> >
>> > + /usr/bin/pesign -c 'Red Hat Test Certificate' --certdir
>> > /etc/pki/pesign-rh-test -i arch/x86/boot/bzImage -o vmlinuz.signed -s
>> > pesign: Could not initialize nss.
>> > NSS says "The certificate/key database is in an old, unsupported
>> > format." errno says "No such file or directory"
>> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YKqoK0 (%build)
>> > RPM build errors:
>> >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YKqoK0 (%build)
>> > Child return code was: 1
>>
>> Probably related: https://github.com/rhboot/pesign/issues/34
>
> I filed a bug against pesign here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827902

Good catch, and thank you for filing the bug.  For the meantime I
reverted the DBM disablement to unblock the kernel package build:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nss/c/fc0174ead16bac476cce55fb2918fbfd9b448023?branch=master

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno
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