Bug 77351

Summary:	NDBM_File missing from perl installation.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Derek Price <oberon>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Derek Price 2002-11-05 17:43:34 UTC

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Description of problem:
The NDBM_File module is missing from the perl distribution.  Attempting to
reinstall it with CPAN claims that it will be installed from the perl
distribution and not a module distribution so I assume it should have been in
the RPM.

You broke my scripts.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RedHat 8.0
2.Run a perl script which uses NDBM_File
3.
	

Actual Results:  Perl script exits with message to effect that "NDBM_File could
not be found".

Expected Results:  Perl script runs.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chip Turner 2002-11-05 18:03:37 UTC

ndbm has been removed from RH Linux 8.0 because of conflict issues with berkeley
db.  you should be able to open any ndbm files with DB_File, though.  You may
need to perform a db_dump followed by a db_load to reload the files, or dump
them into an intermediate file format from an older system.  DB_File and
GDBM_File are the supported tied database interfaces.

Comment 2 Derek Price 2002-11-05 20:46:12 UTC

I don't know if it would be too much trouble for you, but in a case like this,
installing a stub package that printed an error message about being deprecated
and using a substitute, might help reduce the number of bug reports.  For example:

$ cat >/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/NDBM_File.pm << EOF
> package NDBM_File;
> die "NDBM_File obsoleted as of RedHat 8.0.  Please use GDBM_File or DB_File
instead.  For more information, please see
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77351>."
> EOF

Comment 3 Derek Price 2002-11-05 20:53:43 UTC

Oh, and the Memoize::NDBM_File package probably shouldn't be installed.  It uses
NDBM_File:

$ find /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ -name NDBM_File.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Memoize/NDBM_File.pm
$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Memoize/NDBM_File.pm
perl-5.8.0-55
$ sed -n 13p /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Memoize/NDBM_File.pm
use NDBM_File;
$

Comment 4 Chip Turner 2002-11-06 15:15:52 UTC

good point; Memoize::NDBM_File will be removed from future builds.  Changing
NDBM_File to report warnings though is a bit more intrusive a change; we'll
consider it, but for now I'm leaning towards leaving it as-is.