Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

[Rich Megginson]

On 01/08/2015 06:56 AM, Jan Staněk wrote:
> Hi guys,
> as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the
> previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects
> cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good
> - or at least trim down the list of packages dependent on it as much as
> possible.
>
> The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was already discussed at this list
> [1], and it turned out that peaceful cooperation of multiple libdb
> versions in system is very problematic. As some packages cannot use
> newer versions, we are basically stuck with v5 - unless we get rid of it
> altogether or find another solution.
>
> I already started probing which packages depend on libdb and what can
> be done to remove that dependency. My findings are briefly documented
> on [2] and so far it seems that with some work it could be done.
>
> However, as I have only very hazy ideas on how some of the dependent
> packages are used or why they need libdb, I would like to ask for
> cooperation, ideally from the package maintainers themselves. The
> information on how to remove dependency, what would need to be done in
> addition to removing the dependency, or why it is a bad idea to try
> drop the dependency are all valuable.
>
> Thank you very much for any help. I welcome both edits in the wiki at
> [2] in case of relatively simple solutions, and ideas, thoughts and
> explanations on this mailing list.
>
> [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/197406.html
> [2]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jstanek/Draft_-_Removing_BerkeleyDB_from_Fedora

389-ds-base relies heavily on bdb and cannot easily be switched to use 
another db backend.
We are considering moving to lmdb (http://symas.com/mdb/) but that will 
be a long and painful process . . .