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BerkeleyDB 6
Summary
Add BerkeleyDB v. 6, which changed license from previous releases (Sleepycat to AGPLv3+), to Fedora while keeping the older version for packages which cannot use BerkeleyDB with the new license.
Owner
- Name: Jan Staněk
- Email: jstanek@redhat.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 21
- Last updated: 2014-04-25
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
The BerkeleyDB, used between others by 
rpm
Target of this change is to create new set of packages from current
As simple mass rebuild with v6 would very likely introduce license incompatibilities, it will be necessary to update and verify all dependent packages to make sure they use the legally compatible version.
Benefit to Fedora
This change enables projects and packages to use BerkeleyDB with Sleepycat license, allowing them to work until the upstream makes their decision about the license change, and at the same time do not restricts projects which already adopted the BerkeleyDB with new license to the older versions of it.
Scope
- Proposal owners: Create new set of packages and introduce proper versioning in order to not confuse the dynamic linker. Supervise verification of proper version linking against other packages.
- Other developers: Packages dependent on libdb would have to specify which version they want to use (specify version in the spec
Requires:field). They need to make sure their package links against the version with license compatible with their package. Rebuilds of dependent packages will be necessary.
- Release engineering: None
- Policies and guidelines: None
Upgrade/compatibility impact
If the versioning of the symbols will be implemented in the v5, user-built software linked against it will need to be rebuilt.
How To Test
Check if dependent projects builds, runs as expected and do not have license incompatibilities.
User Experience
None (ideally).
Dependencies
$ repoquery --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=fedora --enablerepo=updates --whatrequires 'libdb-5.3.so()(64bit)'
Current output of the above command
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Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: Revert the shipped configuration, try again for the next release.
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Blocks release? Yes