On 01/13/2016 03:07 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Say, for example, that Fedora 24 moves to the new format. Will Fedora 34 > be able to read Fedora 24 RPM databases?
Fedora 25 will. Fedora 34 will probably not. If it turns out that reading 10 releases old database is really, really important. We will either keep the bdb support or offer some tools to basically do a rpmdb --exportdb which can be used to create a modern rpm database. Who is maintaining the BDB needed for this in 2021 is not a question I am going to answer, though. > How about Fedora 24 being > able to read Fedora 34 RPM databases? I hope we don't have to change the format more often than once a decade. Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/ Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Charles Peters -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
