[Pkg-openldap-devel] OpenLDAP build changes (suggested)

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Looking through the build process today, I have the following suggested 
> changes I thought I'd bring here for discussion first.
> 
> (a) We currently are shipping a DB_CONFIG file with the build.  OpenLDAP 2.3 
> lets you control the DB_CONFIG file through slapd.conf, so it is no longer 
> necessary to do this.  I'd recommend that we move to that format.
> 
Interesting, I put it on my todo list for tonight.

> (b) We currently build back-ldbm.  This is an inherited database format from 
> the UMich days that has many known problems, and it is highly advised that 
> people do not use it.  OpenLDAP 2.4 will no longer include back-ldbm as an 
> option at all.  I think that building back-ldbm should be disabled in the 2.3 
> release as a part of preparing for 2.4.
> 
I think there are many people out there still using the ldbm backend. 
Forcing this users to upgrade to the bdb backend is an option but is 
this preferable ?

> --Quanah
> 

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann