On 22 July 2014 09:05, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
On 07/22/2014 04:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
The current plan is to not ship v6 in F21, and there are no agreed plans to ship it in any future release either.  See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1291 for the full history of the debate.

Yet Oracle advertises Fedora's use of Berkeley DB in a recent release announcement:


You are talking past each other. Oracle is talking about v5 in that release even if they are saying it in a v6 announcement. v6 is the one that Miloslav says isn't being looked at in future releases.

 
“Open source Fedora package maintainer, Lubomir Rintel, says "Berkeley DB has quietly served behind the scenes as the database for the RPM Package Manager.   It has proven itself time and time again as a robust and efficient storage engine.   It stores the meta information of the installed rpms.  Under heavy workloads, BDB proves itself reliable. Countless people that use popular Linux distributions have used BDB through RPM and never knew it.  With this new release,   BDB continues its tradition of being a solid storage engine"”

<https://blogs.oracle.com/berkeleydb/entry/berkeley_db_12cr1_12_1>


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