Changing CentOS in mid-stream

Posted Dec 11, 2020 11:16 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: Changing CentOS in mid-stream by eutopiafound
Parent article: Changing CentOS in mid-stream

As an aside, rpm nowadays support sqlite as the DB engine for the package DB, and at least Fedora is planning to switch to it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Sqlite_Rpmdb

Changing CentOS in mid-stream

Posted Dec 11, 2020 18:34 UTC (Fri) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457) [Link] (2 responses)

We're not "planning to", we already did - that Change landed fully in Fedora 33.

Changing CentOS in mid-stream

Posted Dec 13, 2020 5:08 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (1 responses)

And works brilliantly!

Changing CentOS in mid-stream

Posted Dec 14, 2020 23:35 UTC (Mon) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

More important, it works seamlessly. If I hadn't read it here, I never would have known there was a change. That's the goal: the only thing users notice is fewer problems.