BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/22/2014 04:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> The current plan is to not ship v6 in F21, and there are no agreed plans to ship it in any future release either.  See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1291 for the full history of the debate.

Yet Oracle advertises Fedora's use of Berkeley DB in a recent release 
announcement:

“Open source Fedora package maintainer, Lubomir Rintel, says "Berkeley 
DB has quietly served behind the scenes as the database for the RPM 
Package Manager.   It has proven itself time and time again as a robust 
and efficient storage engine.   It stores the meta information of the 
installed rpms.  Under heavy workloads, BDB proves itself reliable. 
Countless people that use popular Linux distributions have used BDB 
through RPM and never knew it.  With this new release,   BDB continues 
its tradition of being a solid storage engine"”

<https://blogs.oracle.com/berkeleydb/entry/berkeley_db_12cr1_12_1>

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security