upcoming libdb/db4/compat-db reorganization

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/04/2012 12:23 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:24:17 +0100, PR (Peter) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Joe Orton wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:21:36PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
>>>> So the plan is:
>>>> 1) remove 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 from compat-db
>>>> 2) put 4.8 to compat-db
>>>> 3) make db4 a dead package
>>>>     (db4 package name is not very descriptive any more as we have
>>>>      libdb-5.3 ...)
>>>
>>> Sounds great.  For Fedora 17 also, right?  #768846 is bad.
>>
>> No! Changes of this level should only be done for rawhide, F-17 is in
>> stabilisation stage.
>
> The libdb packaging in F-17 is broken. Several things in the spec file
> simply don't make any sense. Major changes are needed to fix that.
> Additionally, there are lots of implicit conflicts with db4* in the
> subpackages. With bug reports in bugzilla even.
>

Rawhide is in bad shape too:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816284

Transaction Check Error:
   file /usr/include/db.h conflicts between attempted installs of 
db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
   file /usr/include/db_185.h conflicts between attempted installs of 
db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
   file /usr/include/db_cxx.h conflicts between attempted installs of 
db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
   file /usr/lib64/libdb.so conflicts between attempted installs of 
db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64


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