[Pkg-openldap-devel] r638 - openldap/trunk-2.3/debian

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:37 AM +0000 Matthijs Mohlmann
> <active2-guest at costa.debian.org> wrote:
> 
>>  * Add ldbm to supported_backend, removing it will break the upgrade
>> procedure.
> 
> This doesn't make sense to me, and I'm not clear why LDBM support is
> being added back in.  There are many many reasons not to use LDBM, and I
> can confirm it has been purged from OpenLDAP 2.4 (which is now in
> alpha). There is no reason for anyone to use LDBM, except for a desire
> to have corrupting unrecoverable data (which doesn't seem particularly
> rational to me).
> 
> --Quanah
> 

Hi,

The LDBM backend isn't added again. The "supported_backend" is a
function in the scripts which actually checks for supported backends.
But it is used in a somewhat different way. supported_backend isn't the
right name for it. It's more something like: which backends are
supported to upgrade from.

See also the diff:
@@ -1078,7 +1069,7 @@
 # our scripts.
 # Usage: if supported_backend "backend"; then ... fi

- -	case "$1" in bdb|hdb) return 0; esac
+	case "$1" in ldbm|bdb|hdb) return 0; esac
 	return 1
 }

That doesn't mean that the LDBM backend is in the slapd package again.

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann
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