On 01/11/2016 05:26 PM, Kalev Lember wrote:
On 01/11/2016 03:46 PM, Jan Kurik wrote:
> = Proposed System Wide Change: Change Proposal Name NewRpmDBFormat =
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewRpmDBFormat
>
> Change owner(s):
> * Florian Festi < ffesti AT redhat DOT com >
>
>
> Change format of the RPM Database from Berkeley DB to RPM's own format.
>
> == Detailed Description ==
> The current implementation of the RPM Database is based on Berkeley
> DB. There are doubts about the its future and level of maintenance. In
> addition rpm's use of the database has multiple issues on its own. As
> a result RPM upstream is working to replace the database format with a
> new implementation.
Is the new database going to be able to support yumdb use cases as well?
Might be a good time to get rid of separate rpmdb and yumdb and merge
them together.
No, this is a pretty straight forward replacement of the backend. While
the whole area has still a lot the be desired this change only replaces
the BDB. No other fancy changes.
Florian
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