From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 126102 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2016 21:20:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 126084 invoked by uid 89); 19 Aug 2016 21:20:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:cygwin, uncomfortable X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:20:29 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3DE380F75 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ovpn-116-19.rdu2.redhat.com (ovpn-116-19.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.19]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u7JLKM93008669 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:20:26 -0400 Message-ID: <1471641621.2908.9.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: CALM: error while merging uploaded packages for db (obsoleting db4.8) From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: References: <20160819151552.4spmgzgygpu54aua@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2016-08-19 at 20:13 +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: >     > In the x86 area there's only a release/db4.8 dir, but no >     > release/db/db4.8 dir: > >     > $ ls -d db* >     > db4.8  dbus  dbus-glib >     > $ ls db4.8 >     > db4.8-4.8.30-1-src.tar.bz2  db4.8-doc  libdb4.8- > devel  setup.hint  tcl-db4.8 >     > db4.8-4.8.30- > 1.tar.bz2      libdb4.8   md5.sum         sha512.sum > >     > In your staging area there's only a db dir containing multiple > db4.8 >     > releated dirs in parallel: > >     > $ ls >     > db-6.2.23-1-src.tar.xz  db-doc     libdb-devel     setup.hint >     > db-6.2.23-1.tar.xz      db4.8      libdb4.8-devel  tcl-db >     > db-debuginfo            db4.8-doc  libdb6.2 > >     > This looks wrong anyway, even if you planned to obsolete 4.8. > >     > Are you going to try further yourself (I just remove the entire > content >     > of your db staging dir) or do you need manual intervention?  If > the >     > latter, what *exactly* is the desired result? > > Please remove everything...I know now what I did wrong and will try > again as soon you give me the go... > I would ask you to hold off on 6.x.  The licence change to AGPLv3+ is incompatible with a number of packages which use libdb, and therefore both Fedora and Debian have refrained from upgrading past the latest 5.3 revisions for legal reasons. I understand this may put you in an uncomfortable position given your employer, but it is unfortunately necessary. -- Yaakov