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Change Proposal Name NewRpmDBFormat
Summary
Change format of the RPM Database from BDB to RPM's own format.
Owner
- Name: Florian Festi
- Email: ffesti@redhat.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 24
- Last updated: 2016-01-08
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
The current implementation of the RPM Database is based on Berkeley DB. There are doubts about the its future and level of maintenance. In addition rpm's use of the database has multiple issues on its own. As a result RPM upstream is working to replace the database format with a new implementation.
Benefit to Fedora
Getting rid of Berkeley DB as a dependency of one of the core components. (Actually not in F24 as we will keep the DBD support for now. But this is the required first step.)
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Test and release the already implemented database format.
- Make sure it is supported by all important tools
- Tools using librpm should not be affected
- Libsolv is the most prominent tool accessing the rpmdb directly and needs adjustment
- Tooling for converting existing databases.
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release and update libsolv
- Release engineering: None (hopefully).
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: Not needed
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
Conversion to the new format will make the RPM DB incompatible to older versions of rpm. The new version will be able to convert between the two formats.
How To Test
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
User Experience
This change should influence the user experience.
Dependencies
None
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: Stay with the current format (which will continue to be supported). May need manual work for the testers to convert their rpmdb back.
- Contingency deadline: beta freeze
- Blocks release? Yes.
Documentation
tbd
Release Notes
tbd