Build perl against libdb rather than db4?

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 03/21/2012 11:28 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On 03/21/2012 10:22 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>> On 03/21/2012 10:27 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> I think Fedora's perl (and the rest of the distribution for that matter)
>>> should be built against libdb (db5) rather than db4, at least in
>>> Rawhide, so as to avoid problems like:
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/768846
>>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/712943
>>>
>>> Changed the BR: of db4-devel to libdb-devel is sufficient to achieve
>>> this, and the resulting perl does pass its test suite.
>>>
>> I was told by libdb maintainer that db4 will be replaced by libdb.
>> Rebuild of all dependencies or everything will be needed, so those bugs
>> shouldn't occurred. I guess he will drive the whole change and rebuild.
> 
> When did the libdb maintainer say this? The new libdb has co-existed
> with db4 since F15 and still the majority of Berkeley DB users in Fedora
> are using db4.
> 
He promised to announce it on fedora-devel. I'll mark it into my Perl
todo list to be sure.

>>> Anybody else have any opinion on this?
>>>
>>> Marcela, is RHEL-7 built consistently against the same libdb version or
>>> is this mixing of versions going to be a problem throughout its entire
>>> lifecycle?
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>
>> I'm not allowed to discuss it on public list.
> 
> OK, fair enough. I trust RH is on top of the issue though :-)
> 
> Paul.
>