upcoming libdb/db4/compat-db reorganization

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:15:08 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:44:37 -0600,
>    Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >On 05/04/2012 12:23 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> >Rawhide is in bad shape too:
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816284
> >
> >Transaction Check Error:
> >  file /usr/include/db.h conflicts between attempted installs of 
> >db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
> >  file /usr/include/db_185.h conflicts between attempted installs of 
> >db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
> >  file /usr/include/db_cxx.h conflicts between attempted installs of 
> >db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
> >  file /usr/lib64/libdb.so conflicts between attempted installs of 
> >db4-devel-4.8.30-10.fc18.x86_64 and libdb-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18.x86_64
> 
> My memory is that db4 was going to be retired in F18. But it hasn't 
> happened yet.

There is a Rename Request for db4 -> libdb4 in the package review
queue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/816124

That's where all the fun related to the packaging conflicts and errors
takes places. ;)

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