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gdbm package

  1. Bug #1001189
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1001189

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Paul Crawford (psc-sat) wrote : Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error

It seems this dumbness has been recognised since 2005 according to this bug report, but not taken seriously:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=162416

Apparently "gdbm-1.9.1 (already in Rawhide) provides different magic values for 32 and 64 bits, so we can discover what system the file was created on if we use this new version", though I see that Ubuntu 12.04 is still using an older version:

$ apt-cache policy libgdbm3
libgdbm3:
  Installed: 1.8.3-10
  Candidate: 1.8.3-10
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.3-10 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status