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
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Received on Thu Jun 28 18:06:59 2007