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

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 12:09, 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.
>>
>>At the least, we should probably give ldbm users a warning and
>>instructions on how to convert to a different format.
> 
> 
> <http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=ldbm&file=756> is a 
> good resource on the differences between the various backends, including the 
> multitude of problems with back-ldbm.  I vote for disabling it entirely, and 
> having any ldbm users update to a more robust and stable backend.
> 
> --Quanah
> 

Ah, that url is good, I'll put it in README.Debian with a note and 
disable the ldbm backend.

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann