Re: (A) native Windows port

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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 03:42 am, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > As a note of interest, RPM itself is backed by a database, db3. Prior to
> > version 4.x, it was backed by db1. Upgrading between the versions of RPM
> > is simply -- installing db3 and dependenies, upgrade RPM, and run 'rpm
> > --rebuilddb' -- which works most of the time, but there are pathological
> > cases.....

> > You now are running db3 instead of db1, if you didn't get bit by a
> > pathological case. :-)

> And how big/complex is the db1/3 system catalog we're talking
> about exactly?

Well, on a fully installed system it's about 44MB. The RPM database isn't
terribly complicated, but it's not trivial, either.

However, unless I am mistaken the generic db3 situation is easy migration.

>How many rewrite rules have to be converted into
> the new parsetree format during an RPM upgrade?

Don't know if anything comparable exists.
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Lamar Owen
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