Hey all, As I had alluded to in the pull request adding the SQLite rpmdb backend[1], I have been doing some work every once in a while for the past few years on rpm for macOS.
A point of frustration has been having a working bdb package, and maintaining bdb is functionally impossible for me, as I have no capability to fix bugs there. I had been experimenting with LMDB since it was introduced. Unfortunately, it turned out to be more problematic than I expected. Originally, NDB didn't work on macOS because of its usage of mremap() (which does not exist on macOS)[2]. Thankfully, Michael Schroeder recently fixed this in git master[3], so I gave it another try. After a minor issue[4] and a backport of the ndb fixes to rpm 4.15[5], I was able to transition to ndb and start trying it. I've gotten rpm itself working with ndb, and it seems like all the basic actions work perfectly fine with ndb. I'm working on building up a package manager stack so that I can start doing some more interesting tests, but there are issues with libsolv where it makes the assumption about where the rpmdb path is and what type of rpmdb it is... My current plan is to at least get to the point where I can try working with the solv(1) demo program included in libsolv, and then proceed from there. At least with the DNF stack, there's still the problem that it assumes bdb[6] and specific rpmdb paths. I'd like to get to the point that I could use MicroDNF[7]... [1]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/899#issuecomment-543129651 [2]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/334 [3]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/3625ca14c752fa229c79891fcc6374df40b5b588 [4]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/907 [5]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/compare/rpm-4.15.x...Conan-Kudo:rpm-4.15.0-osx-ndb [6]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/issues/362 [7]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/microdnf -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
