Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Sqlite RpmDB

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:22:47AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> === Upgrading ===
> Ability to upgrade is not affected
> After upgrade completes, manual action (rpmdb --rebuilddb) will
>
> probably be needed to convert to sqlite. Alternatively user can change
> configuration to stay on BDB.

Do I understand correctly:
- without the manual step, users will remain on the old format
- with the old format, in F33 everything will still work fine, but
  after upgrade to F34, the database will become read-only

Why is an automatic 'rpmdb --rebuilddb' not part of upgrade plan?

Zbyszek