Re: DB_File

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com>]

Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> writes:

> I'm not that clear on the problem.  But it's not debian specific, right?  
> I mean google finds a bunch of posts about DB_File and Perl 5.8.0, 
> although perhaps those were different issues.
>
> Is it just upgrading to BerkeleyDB 4 that requires rebuilding the db 
> files?

I had the same problem a while ago. The binary format of Berkeley DB
has changed.

You need to :
- dump your database (old format) in ascii form using db3_dump
- create your database in new format using db4.0_load

For this download libdb3-util, libdb4.0-util.

If your database is older try libdb2-util.


I believe that this problem is specific to BerkeleyDb. 

HTH

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