Fixed most bugs, one related to purging still needs correction.

SWIM/DB.pm

@@ -107,12 +107,16 @@ sub db {
         elsif (/^Status:/) {
             chomp;
             $status = substr($_,8);
-            # a test
+            # a test and now a solution
-            #if ($status eq "purge ok not-installed") {
+            if ($status eq "purge ok not-installed") {
-            #  if (defined $db{$package[1]}) {
+		##########
-            #   print "$db{$package[1]}\n";
+		# PURGED #
-            #  }
+		##########
-            #}
+		if (defined $db{$package[1]}) {
+		    #push(@gone,"$db{$package[1]}");
+		    print "$db{$package[1]}\n";
+		}	          
+	    }
 	}
         # hold ok not-installed - may want to change this just to
         # non-installed.
@@ -221,6 +225,7 @@ sub db {
     untie %ib;
     undef %ib;
 
+
     # Going to be adding some stuff to nsearchindex.deb and ndirindex.deb
     # so better remove any compressed versions if they exist
     if (@GONE || @NEW) {
@@ -329,8 +334,8 @@ sub db {
     # files for *.list are in ./info/backup/*.list.bk.  We will also have to
     # deal with those rare cases that forget /. (smail 2.0v).  We should remove
     # this file as well as the packagename-conf.md5sums file below.
-    my $file = "$parent$base/info/backup/$_.list.bk";
+    my $file = "$main::home$parent$base/info/backup/$_.list.bk";
-    my $md5sum_file = "$parent$base/info/$_-conf.md5sums";
+    my $md5sum_file = "$main::home$parent$base/info/$_-conf.md5sums";
      open(LIST,"$file");
      while (<LIST>) {
        chomp;
@@ -797,21 +802,23 @@ sub db {
    # made, might as well use this.  There is a possibility this can be
    # used instead of fastswim for initial fileindex.deb.
      my $package_name;
-     if (!-d "$parent$base/info/backup") {
+     if (!-d "$main::home$parent$base/info/backup") {
-        mkdir("$parent$base/info/backup",0666);
+        mkdir("$main::home$parent$base/info/backup",0666);
      }
      print STDERR "\n" if $#NEW != -1; $x = 1;
 
   foreach $package_name (@NEW) {
-     open(FILENAME,"$parent$base/info/$package_name.list");
+      open(FILENAME,"$main::home$parent$base/info/$package_name.list");
-     open(CP,">$parent$base/info/backup/$package_name.list.bk");
+      open(CP,">$main::home$parent$base/info/backup/$package_name.list.bk");
+      if ( -e "$main::home$parent$base/info/$package_name.list" ) {
 	  while (<FILENAME>) {
 	      print CP $_;  
 	  }
+      }
       close(FILENAME);
       close(CP);
 
-     my $file = "$parent$base/info/backup/$package_name.list.bk";
+      my $file = "$main::home$parent$base/info/backup/$package_name.list.bk";
       print STDERR "#$x"; print STDERR " N|C $package_name.list             \r";
       $x++;
       open(LIST,"$file");

pkg/dpkg/changelog

@@ -1,9 +1,19 @@
+dswim (0.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Stricter checking in Perl 5.8 caused the db not to be built if
+    fastswim noticed non-existent files because this is considered a
+    fatal error.  Removed the die function and now check for non-
+    existent files in fastswim, imswim also produced some related error
+    output that was fixed.
+
+ -- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@freesoftwarepc.com>  Wed,  5 Jan 2005 22:48:34 -0500
+
 dswim (0.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Fixes error output caused by repetitive opts found by the recent
     Getopt::Long. Rebuild db if you've updated to the newest DB_File.
 
- -- Jonathan Rosenbaum <root@funhouse.domain.com>  Wed,  6 Nov 2002 08:16:49 -0500
+ -- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net>  Wed,  6 Nov 2002 08:16:49 -0500
 
 dswim (0.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low