Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124833
The gdbm database access method is no longer available in httpd.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
Description of problem: The gdbm database access method (available in FC1) is no longer available in FC2. This is not mentioned in the release notes. Users which use the gdbm (as from PHP to drive wikis) cannot access their data after an upgrade.
Also I find this is annoying. Luckily there is a fairly easy workaround: - download latest php source rpm (e.g. php-4.3.6-5.src.rpm) from Fedora ftp site - install it (rpm -ivh php-4.3.6-5.src.rpm) - edit /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/php.spec: 1) add gdbm at the end of the Release line (i.e. change it to Release: 5gdbm) 2) replace --without-gdbm with --with-gdbm=%{_prefix} - build it: rpmbuild -ba php.spec (if it complains about missing libraries, install those first) - install the newly build packages (cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386; rpm -Fvh php*.rpm) After this procedure phpwiki at least works just fine.
My apologies for omitting this change from the release notes, that was an oversight. However, the change itself is necessary for licensing reasons, since the PHP license conflicts with the gdbm license (GPL), so this bug must be closed NOTABUG, unfortunately.