Bug 1787311

Summary:	Removing libdb dependency
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Filip Januš <fjanus>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	igor.raits, mjw, packaging-team-maint, pmatilai, pmoravco, vmukhame
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Last Closed:	2021-02-03 13:34:21 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Filip Januš 2020-01-02 10:35:33 UTC

According to more restrictive libdb licence policy exists effort to remove libdb's dependencies.
rpm is now built with libdb requirement, but in near future rpm should support other backend then libdb. Even it looks like it will be able to access BerkeleyDB databses without libdb dependency.

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/980

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2020-02-11 17:38:32 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle.
Changing version to 32.

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2020-04-09 12:08:07 UTC

We wont be able to do this on Fedora 33 (much less 32), but Fedora 34 should be a realistic timeframe for cutting this cord finally. That'll be quite a moment.

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2021-02-03 09:02:27 UTC

Let's flick the switch in rawhide once Fedora 34 has been branched, it's a bit too close to comfort to do this for F34 at this point. Rpm >= 4.17 which is expected in Fedora 35 in a couple of months will drop support for libdb entirely so this will give people a bit of time to work things out if something unexpected breaks.

Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2021-02-03 13:34:21 UTC

Due to popular request, change of plans:

Turns out, this was actually planned and approved for F34 in the F33 sqlite change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Sqlite_Rpmdb, and since we don't have a concrete reason not to (this is afterall trivial to revert if things go boom):
BDB support disabled in rpm-4.16.1.2-6.fc34

Bye bye BDB, I'm not going to miss you.