Resolve LHCBPS-1780 "backport Git CondDB"

Merged Marco Clemencic requested to merge LHCBPS-1780.backport-Git-CondDB.reco14 into reco14-patches

Backport of !557 (merged) and following changes.

Closes LHCBPS-1780

Edited by Marco Clemencic

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