RFE: compat-db should contains db-4.3 and db-4.2. RHEL5 is released with db-4.3, RHEL4 is released with db-4.2. But compat-db of RHEL6 is based on db-4.5 and db-4.6, it is not in reason.
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As it is very important to run programs developped under RHEL5, how to re-open my request? Just reply something here or fire a new RFE bug?
Fixing flags. This is not a future feature; it's a bug.
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Putting back Request for Enhancement to the bug summary as it is not a bug. Nothing in RHEL6 actually depends on obsolete BDB 4.2 or 4.3. These old BDBs were removed intentionally.
But why there are still compat-db45 and compat-db46? Who need them?
Good point. Please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459710#c3 There was a need to have at least BDB 4.6 in compat-db because of rpm in the time of Fedora 10. BDB-4.3, 4.5, 4.6 are not needed by anything in RHEL6 any more (according to my repoquery investigations). I'm not sure which third-party software would need any of the older BDBs though. Keeping the latest three BDB releases (4.7.25, 4.6.21 and 4.5.20) in RHEL6 is hopefully sufficient.
To be precise, the latest released Oracle BDB version is 5.0.21 (Mar 2010, not included in RHEL6, it is present in the new libdb package). There is also 4.8.26 (released Jan 2010), which is the mainline BDB in current F13 and rawhide. 4.7.25 (Jun 2008) has proven stable what is the reason why it is present in RHEL6.
The point is to have compatiblity(In reply to comment #10) > I'm not sure which third-party software would need any of the older BDBs > though. Keeping the latest three BDB releases (4.7.25, 4.6.21 and 4.5.20) in > RHEL6 is hopefully sufficient. The point is compatibility for apps built on RHEL 5 and RHEL 4, not earlier Fedora; it's why you'd need the older bdb releases.
Who cares rpms stolen from Fedora-10? We cares software migrated from EL5/EL4 much more.
In comment #10 I was describing reasons why db-4.6 and db-4.5 was in compat-db because of, now very obsolete, Fedora 10. My intention was to describe motivation why 4.6 and 4.5 was needed in times of Fedora 10 and that even these (newer versions than in RHEL4 and RHEL5) are now obsolete because the have no dependencies in RHEL6. So I was not speaking about using F10 packages in RHEL6 at all.
OK, In my opinion, enterprise customers have a motive to run legacy business software developed at the decade of RHEL4/RHEL5, this is the reason why compat-db43 and compat-db42 are necessary. At the same time, the compatibility of earily Fedora is not necessary. compat-glibc.EL5 is for EL4, and .EL6 is for EL5. compat-expat1 is for EL5. compat-readline43 is for EL4 compat-readline5 is for EL5 compat-gcc-34 is for EL4 compat-db.EL5 is for EL4, but compat-db.EL6 is for nothing meaningful.
BDB 4.2 and 4.3 are now added, BDB 4.5 and 4.6 removed.
# rpm -qa | grep compat-db | sort compat-db-4.6.21-15.el6.i686 compat-db-4.6.21-15.el6.x86_64 compat-db42-4.2.52-15.el6.i686 compat-db42-4.2.52-15.el6.x86_64 compat-db43-4.3.29-15.el6.i686 compat-db43-4.3.29-15.el6.x86_64
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