Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139416
poor packaging of libdb-4.3 and libdb-4.2
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Epiphany/1.4.4 Description of problem: The db4 package is poorly versioned. Version 4.2 is fully co-installable with version 4.3, and back to older versions as well. Instead of having the silly compat-db4 package (which is then only compat with a single version), the package should just be broken up into db4.2, db4.3, and so on. There would be no problems with upgrading, older versions can *easily* be kept in the tree, and the entire process of dealing with the db4 situation becomes a piece of cake. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): db4-4.2.52-6 db4-4.3.21-1 db4-4.2.52-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade one component that needs db4-4.3 while another one still need db4-4.2 and yet another needs db4-4.1 Additional info:
There is no known interest in supporting multiple versions of libdb concurrently in FC4. Nor is there any compelling reason to do so. All FC4 packages that use the system provided db should be linked with db-4.3.21. If not, then that is a bug that will be identified and fixed shortly. The compat-db package carries the previous libary (and soname) to make the transition easier.