BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 22 July 2014 09:05, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/22/2014 04:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>
>> The current plan is to not ship v6 in F21, and there are no agreed plans
>> to ship it in any future release either.  See https://fedorahosted.org/
>> fesco/ticket/1291 for the full history of the debate.
>>
>
> Yet Oracle advertises Fedora's use of Berkeley DB in a recent release
> announcement:
>
>
You are talking past each other. Oracle is talking about v5 in that release
even if they are saying it in a v6 announcement. v6 is the one that
Miloslav says isn't being looked at in future releases.



> “Open source Fedora package maintainer, Lubomir Rintel, says "Berkeley DB
> has quietly served behind the scenes as the database for the RPM Package
> Manager.   It has proven itself time and time again as a robust and
> efficient storage engine.   It stores the meta information of the installed
> rpms.  Under heavy workloads, BDB proves itself reliable. Countless people
> that use popular Linux distributions have used BDB through RPM and never
> knew it.  With this new release,   BDB continues its tradition of being a
> solid storage engine"”
>
> <https://blogs.oracle.com/berkeleydb/entry/berkeley_db_12cr1_12_1>
>
>
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