From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 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:
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.
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
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; $
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.