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Do another sweep for db/db+32 in PKGDEP #2103

Open Artoria2e5 opened 4 years ago

Artoria2e5 commented 4 years ago

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Berkeley DB has been naughty for pretty well-known reasons. The upstream is not really quick to fix issues either. The common suggestion is to replace with lmdb.

Affected packages:

Ignored packages:

As Debian guys have mentioned, existing installations will need format conversion for internal dbs.

MingcongBai commented 4 years ago

Another point of reference from Fedora.

Artoria2e5 commented 4 years ago

The mention to nss_updatedb looks a bit fishy, as glibc has dropped berkeley db for nss_db since 2011 (https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2666d441c2d8107b1987b869714189af64b954c6).