[Pkg-openldap-devel] How far from OpenLDAP 2.3?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, January 23, 2006 9:31 AM -0800 Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> 
wrote:

> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:22:45PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>> How far are we from being able to upload OpenLDAP 2.3?  Upstream is
>>> getting pretty adamant that anything prior to 2.3 is unsupported, and I
>>> expect that a lot of the open 2.2 bugs are fixed in 2.3.  Is the GnuTLS
>>> patch is the only real holdup at this point?
>
>> This is certainly the main obstacle to being able to upload libldap2-dev
>> 2.3 to unstable.  Has anybody looked at possible db upgrade issues
>> between slapd 2.2 and slapd 2.3?
>
> Quanah, can you comment on what the upgrade looks like?  (And you probably
> want to subscribe to pkg-openldap-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org; I'll get
> you the details.)

As far as BDB versions go, I recommend continuing to stick with BDB 
4.2.52+patches.  The OpenLDAP specific transactions patch is no longer 
necessary for 2.3 like it was for 2.2.  The main thing is that the database 
must have the 2.2 version of slapcat run to export the database to an LDIF 
file, the database files removed (*.bdb, log files, and the BDB 
environment), and then a 2.3 slapadd -q on the LDIF file must be run to 
import the data back into the database.  This is because the database 
storage format has changed between the major releases.

--Quaanh

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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