---
name: "wanna-build-catgdbm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wanna-build"
version: "0.60.0-2squeeze1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wanna-build-catdb"
---

# wanna-build-catgdbm(1)

dump wanna-build database

Part of [wanna-build-catdb(1)](/wanna-build-catdb/1.md).

## NAME

wanna-build-catdb - dump wanna-build database

## SYNOPSIS

**wanna-build-catdb** **package**\
 **wanna-build-catgdbm** **package**\
 **wanna-build-catmldbm** **package**

## VERSION

This man page documents the packaged version of wanna-build.  This version is maintained by the **buildd-tools** project developers on Alioth (`https://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools/`).

There is also a version maintained by Ryan Murray which is adapted to build daemon needs, with similar functionality.  This version should be equally capable of working in a buildd setup, but has a number of enhancements aimed at making it suitable for use by end-users.

## DESCRIPTION

wanna-build-catdb is used to make a raw text dump of a wanna-build database. wanna-build-catdb will dump databases in Berkely DB format, while wanna-build-catgdbm will dump GDBM format databases and wanna-build-catmldbm will dump MLDBM format databases.  MLDBM is the database format currently used by wanna-build.

wanna-build-catdb is deprecated.  It will not dump the complete multi-level hash structure of current databases, and will be removed in the future. wanna-build provides --export and --import options to dump and restore its database as a text file.  Please use these instead of wanna-build-catdb.

## OPTIONS

- *database*

  The database file to dump.

## FILES

- */var/lib/wanna-build*

  Database files.

## AUTHORS

Roman Hodek \<Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de\>, Ryan Murray \<rmurray@debian.org\>, and Roger Leigh \<rleigh@debian.org\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**wanna-build**(1)](/wanna-build/1.md).