Adding .db support to pkg_tools
Anders Nore
andenore at start.no
Mon May 12 15:14:13 UTC 2008
On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:07:41 +0200, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:38:25AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> +1. BDB is quite easy to corrupt...
>
> If we're going to use a binary file format, please consider using SQLite
> instead. It has the right license, a nice API (transactions!) and is
> robust
> enough for yum to use it for a similar purpose.
>
One of the reasons for using BDB is that it is in the base system, SQLite
however is not.
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