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Date:      Sun, 11 May 2008 12:07:41 -0700
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools
Message-ID:  <20080511190741.GB47383@lizzy.catnook.local>
In-Reply-To: <9FC19AC2-DAD8-418C-8B9C-F129DEC58CEF@gmail.com>
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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.

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com



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