upcoming libdb/db4/compat-db reorganization

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Petr,

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:57:11AM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2012-04-17, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> wrote:
> > it seems to be the right time to do an unification/reorganization of
> > Oracle (Berkeley) DB packages in rawhide.
> [...]
> > What I'm planning to do is getting rid of db4 package. But before that
> > I want to clean-up compat-db for a bit.
> >
> Is it possible to handle db4-created database file with db5 library? In
> other words, if I rebuild an aplication against db5 and ship it to
> stable Fedora, can I expect problems?

Oracle tries to keep the old on-disk format readable and usable by the
next libdb releases. From what I see from the changelogs:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index-082944.html

The file format of 5.3.x should still be compatible with 4.8.x. Only
the log file format upgrade is needed (if used).

Jindrich

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