Once upon a time, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com> said:
I wonder if the MDB (or LMDB) database from the openldap team was
evaluated
as a possible BDB replacement?
There's also TDB from Samba.
I certainly don't know RPM's requirements, but it seems shortsighted
from a long-term maintenance point of view to implement a custom
database, both from a format and a code point of view.
The prime reason to change away from BDB is "doubts about its future and
level of maintenance" - how is reinventing a wheel any easier than
keeping an existing wheel working?
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>