Bug 837629 – [Tracker] Removing Berkeley DB (bdb, sys-libs/db)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Sam James 2022-04-10 11:10:39 UTC]

We're trying to reduce our dependence on Berkeley DB as much as possible given almost all of the slots are unmaintained upstream.

We wrote a news item a little while ago while trying to purge unused slots which includes a lot of the rationale: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/2021-05-30-deprecate-old-bdb-slots/2021-05-30-deprecate-old-bdb-slots.en.txt?id=e72bcc8406e41ade2e186fe88e14586a6f4bb9b4.

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2022-12-07 15:53:42 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9f43592098067bf91ccacbde089586f9db95dde3

commit 9f43592098067bf91ccacbde089586f9db95dde3
Author:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-12-07 15:52:36 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-12-07 15:53:12 +0000

    profiles: last-rite long-masked sys-libs/db slots
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837629
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <[e-mail]>

 profiles/package.mask | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

[Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow 2023-01-10 03:47:22 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9b0f4da717eabd4de763d70edc69dd329b699f7d

commit 9b0f4da717eabd4de763d70edc69dd329b699f7d
Author:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-01-09 13:19:40 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-01-10 03:46:52 +0000

    profiles: last-rite sys-libs/db:6.0
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837629
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <[e-mail]>

 profiles/package.mask | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

[Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow 2023-01-13 16:52:26 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3ea23f2e0c515d53aed9786954a41a800e53b639

commit 3ea23f2e0c515d53aed9786954a41a800e53b639
Author:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-01-13 16:51:26 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-01-13 16:52:13 +0000

    profiles: drop sys-libs/db:6.0 last-rites for now
    
    I'm going to yank this for now because there's packages which poorly
    define which slots they use and it's not a very nice migration path
    for users as-is.
    
    Will revisit with a bugfest for berkdb consumers.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837629
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <[e-mail]>

 profiles/package.mask | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)