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Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2014-04-29 00:05:39
Per CS/DS meeting of 04/28/2014 - 10.4.
Additionally, it was discussed in this meeting to also move PKI TRAC Ticket 167 - Update Dogtag 10 to utilize the shared NSS database model to 10.4.
Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2017-02-27 14:06:57
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Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-07-06 14:50:11
Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-07-06 14:50:11
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Comment from ftweedal (@frasertweedale) at 2017-07-10 17:32:34
This is the push we need to finally start using the new DB format.
Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-08-04 17:30:32
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Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2017-09-07 12:48:10
Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2017-09-07 13:53:34
Upstream JSS ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397824
Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-09-25 16:22:58
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Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-09-25 17:18:45
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Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-10-25 18:31:08
[20171025] - Offline Triage ==> 10.6
Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2017-10-25 18:31:09
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This issue was migrated from Pagure Issue #974. Originally filed by edewata (@edewata) on 2014-04-23 22:16:54:
The current JSS API is based on an old NSS API which can only access a single database for the whole duration of the JVM. It doesn't seem to be possible to access multiple databases, either concurrently or consecutively, without restarting the JVM.
NSS provided an explanation why this is a problem and provided a new API as a solution: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Library_Init. The JSS API would have to be updated to use the new NSS API.
The NSS problem described above doesn't necessarily apply to Dogtag, but there might be situations where it can be useful to support multiple databases: