Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.

RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

Description of problem:

The Perl RPM ships with the *NDBM* core modules missing. There is NO WAY to install the missing modules, because they are only available inside the Perl source tarball; if I want this module (and I do) I have no choice but to rebuild Perl from scratch.

There's no reason (and no excuse) to rip core modules *out* of your distribution. Please put it back. Thanks.

Additional Information	

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

ALL

How reproducible:

EVERY TIME

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Perl
2. perl -MNDBM_File -e 0
3. Stand back in shock and horror
  
Actual results:

No such module error.

Expected results:

No errors.

Additional info:

The relevant changelog entries are:

* Mon Jan 27 2003 Chip Turner <cturner>
- version the Obsoleted on perl-NDBM_File so users can install newer
- change the Obsoletes on NDBM_File to a Conflicts
  ones than what shipped with 7.3, yet still keep anaconda happy

* Thu Dec 20 2001 Chip Turner <cturner>
- remove ndbm completely

* Sun Dec 16 2001 Chip Turner <cturner>
- make rpmlint happy, split out NDBM_File, clean up other spots
- stopped doing grep -v etc in favor of custom script

It will be fixed in perl-5.10.1-116.el6 and higher in next minor update.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 640729 ***