[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:08 PM -0700 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:12:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:29:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> > openldap2.3 is still building against db4.2 at upstream's specific
>> > recommendation.  According to upstream, db4.5 (and db4.4) have
>> > regressions from db4.2 in supporting OpenLDAP.
>
>> > They have hopes for db4.6, once it's finally released.
>
>> > This doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't switch to db4.5 anyway,
>> > depending on the severity of the regressions, but I wanted to note in
>> > the bug log that there was a reason why this hadn't been done other
>> > than simple lack of time.
>
>> This is something that we on the cyrus-sasl2 team are also dealing with.
>> I think that what has held us back so far from going out on a limb is
>> the integral nature of cyrus-sasl2 for most systems.
>
> FWIW, while I would say cyrus-sasl2 is fairly integral, the bdb support
> /within/ cyrus-sasl2 is not as integral.  I don't use any of the sasl
> methods on my systems that look up to a local db.
>
> Anyway, if there are problems, better that they be detected at the
> beginning of the release cycle when it's easier to get any upstream bdb
> problems fixed in time for lenny.

My hope is 4.6 will be out long before lenny.  It is the first release 
since BDB 4.2 that I've seen actually outperform 4.2 across the board.  4.4 
& 4.5 were both noticeably slower in read & write tests.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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