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Date:      Mon, 12 May 2008 17:12:56 +0200
From:      Anders Nore <andenore@start.no>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools
Message-ID:  <op.ua1q7ujn2n4ijf@duckjen.nextgentel.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080511190741.GB47383@lizzy.catnook.local>
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On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:07:41 +0200, Jos Backus <jos@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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