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The old Berkeley DB slots need to go at this point. The Base Project has |
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decided to consider BDB a deprecated database backend, and we'll slowly |
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be working towards a (possibly) BDB-free ::gentoo some time in the long- |
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term future. |
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Title: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal |
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Author: David Seifert <soap@g.o> |
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Posted: 2021-05-26 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:1 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:3 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:4.2 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:4.3 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:4.4 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:4.5 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:4.6 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:4.7 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/db:5.1 |
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On 1st June, we will mask the following Berkeley DB (aka sys-libs/db) |
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slots for removal from the tree within 60 days (bug #792222): |
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- 1 |
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- 3 |
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- 4.2 |
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- 4.3 |
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- 4.4 |
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- 4.5 |
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- 4.6 |
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- 4.7 |
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- 5.1 |
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You should export your data first before rebuilding any applications |
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against newer slots of sys-libs/db. |
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Furthermore, the Gentoo Base System Team has decided to consider |
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sys-libs/db a deprecated database backend. What this means for you is |
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that we will slowly start deprecating optional use of sys-libs/db in |
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consumers and mask their USE="berkdb" flags with the goal of eventual |
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removal of berkdb support from those packages. |
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Other distros such as Fedora have started a gradual phase-out of |
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Berkeley DB too, given Oracle's strong-armed approach to community |
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input and their arguably hostile switch to the AGPLv3 |
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(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Libdb_deprecated). Furthermore, |
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Oracle is known to remove critical features from BDB in patch releases, |
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such as the removal of the client-server architecture and the SQL API |
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between 18.1.32 and 18.1.40. |
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To this end, we will also be removing USE="berkdb" from |
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profiles/default/linux/make.defaults. If you implicitly depend on |
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profiles enabling optional use of sys-libs/db, you will need to enable |
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this USE flag yourself, beginning 1st June. |
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From here on, you should be working under the assumption that the |
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sys-libs/db package will be gone from the Gentoo repository within |
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**two years** from the time of this news item. If you depend on BDB in |
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a production environment, we strongly suggest you move to one of the |
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modern replacements, such as GDBM, SQLite or LMDB. |