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Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES configure.ac rpm/rpmdb/ Makefile.am

From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2007 - 18:06:52 CEST
Message-Id: <200706281806.52979.arekm@pld-linux.org>
On Thursday 28 of June 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:06 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > Fair enough! It certainly is a difficult balance between avoiding the
> > trouble with lusers and still allowing packagers to build RPM with an
> > external Berkeley-DB _without_ having to patch the RPM sources.
>
> The only patch is the robust mutexes. There's likely a vector in
> Berkeley DB that can be overridden, and the POSIX shared mutex
> locking can be carried privately within rpm if external db is
> absolutely desired. 

Where is that patch? We at PLD don't like internal libs, we prefer to patch 
external ones.

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Arkadiusz Mi¶kiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
Received on Thu Jun 28 18:06:59 2007
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