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

[Russ Allbery]

Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl> writes:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

>> (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 ?

They're going to have to eventually, since the support is being dropped.
(Plus, that database format has a lot of corruption problems and ideally
shouldn't be used even now.)  So it's a question of how we want to handle
the transition for those users.

At the least, we should probably give ldbm users a warning and
instructions on how to convert to a different format.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>