apt-ftparchive

Posted Jul 18, 2013 16:08 UTC (Thu) by vasi (subscriber, #83946)
Parent article: Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3

The only part of apt that uses BDB, apt-ftparchive, doesn't use any of those complex features. So for apt, it would be simple to replace BDB with almost any other database.

When Fink (which is apt-based) had the problem of not wanting BDB as a core dependency, I just wrote a pure Perl implementation of apt-ftparchive: https://github.com/fink/fink/blob/master/perlmod/Fink/Sca... . It worked ok for us!