Re: Subversion's use of Berkeley DB [#11511]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:19:51PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 17:58, Keith Bostic wrote:
> > The reason is because Subversion is, to my knowledge, unique
> > among Berkeley DB applications. I know of no other software
> > using DB that is:
> >
> > + also a library (and a library where the people writing
> > the library don't also write the application software
> > using the library),
> >
> > + used in a multi-process model, and
> >
> > + called from a variety of different languages and APIs.
>
> RPM?
>

It is my understanding that RPM uses BDB in the same way that
sendmail does; as an efficient indexed store of data that is
managed separately.

IIUC, this is why "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm --rebuilddb" is
used to unwedge RPM's database.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097

--ben

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Received on Mon Dec 13 00:43:28 2004