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

Matthijs Mohlmann matthijs at cacholong.nl
Wed Feb 22 21:06:32 UTC 2006


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Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
> 
There is support for changing to the bdb backend, we need to change it
so, that it becomes mandatory. And if a user don't want it, then break
the installation proces. But that shouldn't be that difficult. (Thanks
for your work Torsten)

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

I'm thinking of a debconf warning...

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann
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