Bug 1779190

Summary: Remove libdb dependency from sdb package
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Filip Januš <fjanus>
Component: bindAssignee: Petr Menšík <pemensik>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: anon.amish, mruprich, msehnout, pemensik, pzhukov, thozza, vonsch, zdohnal
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Last Closed: 2019-12-03 18:36:43 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Filip Januš 2019-12-03 13:40:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
According to more restrictive libdb licence policy exists effort to remove libdb's dependencies.
bind-sdb package is now built with libdb requirement, it's used as external cache database, instead of Berkeley DB is possible to use other database (MySQL, PostgreSQL,...) or directly filesystem(--with-dlz-filesystem=ARG).


Actual results:
require libdb

Expected results:
don't need libdb
Comment 1 Petr Menšík 2019-12-03 15:08:59 UTC 
I have no information about named-sdb usage and popularity of any databases. I personally doubt Berkeley DB would be among popular usages of named-sdb builds.

On Rawhide, I build already DLZ plugins. They are loadable modules intended to replace statically built named-sdb.

I have no reason to keep db interface if its license is problematic. Also, bind already uses lmdb database, which might be able to replace file based storage. named-sdb have poor performance anyway, compared to bind-dyndb-ldap. I think LDAP and SQL databases are more important.
Comment 2 Petr Menšík 2019-12-03 18:07:33 UTC 
Fixed by commit https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bind/c/ccf1b0373472695ac7f268e01c75d8b7604b135a
Comment 3 Petr Menšík 2019-12-03 18:36:43 UTC 
Keeping possible support intact, use fedpkg local --with BDB for build with Berkeley DB support. New default is no libdb support.