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+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages gdbm)
+  #:use-module (guix licenses)
+  #:use-module (guix packages)
+  #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))
+
+(define-public gdbm
+  (package
+    (name "gdbm")
+    (version "1.10")
+    (source
+     (origin
+      (method url-fetch)
+      (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/gdbm/gdbm-"
+                          version ".tar.gz"))
+      (sha256
+       (base32
+        "0h9lfzdjc2yl849y0byg51h6xfjg0y7vg9jnsw3gpfwlbd617y13"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/")
+    (synopsis "GNU dbm key/value database library")
+    (description
+     "GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions
+that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
+These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and
+manipulate a hashed database.
+
+The basic use of GDBM is to store key/data pairs in a data file.  Each
+key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data item.
+
+The library provides primitives for storing key/data pairs, searching
+and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key along with its
+data.  It also support sequential iteration over all key/data pairs in a
+database.
+
+For compatibility with programs using old UNIX dbm function, the package
+also provides traditional dbm and ndbm interfaces.")
+    (license gpl3+)))