On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 6:39 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03. 02. 21 10:13, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Just woke up to the fact that F34 is about to be branched, and that we > > originally planned to phase out BDB rpmdb support to read-only in Fedora 34 [1]. > > > > That's too close to comfort for me, and might be considered too late for other > > reasons too. So a slight change of plans, lets postpone this to F35, and handle > > this right away after F34 has been branched. Rpm >= 4.17 which is to be expected > > later in F35 will not *have* read-write BDB support at all, so disabling it > > early gives folks a little of leeway where things can still be temporarily > > reverted if something unexpected breaks. > > > > Should we file a separate system-wide change for this, or can we proceed on the > > basis that this was already accepted as a part of the sqlite change [1]? > > I'd say this is already accepted as a part of the sqlite change, but please open > a placeholder issue at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes to make sure > we document this in the release notes of Fedora 35. > I'm not entirely sure why you think we need to postpone this, since 1) branching is the *early* part of the cycle, not the late part and 2) Koji is already doing bootstrap builds now, explicitly because of BDB being dropped in Fedora 34. We accepted the Fedora 33 Change with the premise you were going to drop in Fedora 34. Reverting to enabling the rw BDB backend is pretty straightforward, so I still suggest that you actually *still* do it now and file a release note issue about it being dropped in F34. -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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