Back in 2013, the Berkeley DB license was changed in a way that prevented
most of open-source world to go along, rpm was no different. We now have
other options and a standalone migration path from BDB for those that
haven't yet done so.
Whatever else might be said about this partnership, it has been a long one.
Now's the time to part ways.
NSS is a behemoth of a library which drags in a whole runtime subsystem
of its own which is often at odds with normal Unix system behavior
(hello SIGPIPE). Now that we have nicer alternatives available there's
little reason to lug this baggage along. NSS was deprecated in rpm 4.16
(commit 0b9efb93fb).
v2 (Neal Gompa)
* Switch from RPM_CHECK_LIB to PKG_CHECK_MODULES
* Fix notation of file name in lmdb.c
* Remove MDB_FIXEDMAP flag to prevent portability issues
* Add comment that lmdb is an option for %_db_backend
Closes: #281Fixes: #128
- We hereby unceremoniously declare that from now on, SELinux and
other similar mechanisms are to live in plugins, rpm doesn't need
to know about every possible security etc mechanism there might be.
Its a big commit but as its really just removals...
- We need to disable sepolicy collection plugin for now as it relies on
built-in support for selinux, this not only makes no sense but
wont work now that there is no built-in support. The sepolicy
plugin needs to be merged into the selinux base plugin now.
- Another "breakage" is that --rebuilddb no longer relabels the database,
this needs plugins to called in a place where they currently cannot
be called. This needs to be resolved before next actual release.
Panu Matilainen