[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#377812: slapd using back-sql doesn't start

[Steve Langasek]

tags 377812 = confirmed
thanks

> In any case, I assume the Debian upgrade script does the right thing as
> far as doing backups, i.e., it iterates over the entire slapd.conf file, 
> looking for every occurrence of the "database" keyword, and then backs up 
> each of those databases individually in their own LDIF file, and skips any 
> unsupported database backends for backups.

This appears to not be the case.  I don't think that any consideration was
given, when this code was written, to the possibility that a failure to
slapcat a database would be anything but a fatal error that should cause the
upgrade to abort.

This should be corrected in the Debian package.  back-sql clearly needs to
be excluded, since we have no way to slapcat it; back-ldap should as well, I
think, because the backend storage format is obviously stable. ;)  What
other backends should be excluded?

(I think this should be a list of exclusions rather than inclusions, because
I would rather assume by default that we *should* back up a directory unless
we have a concrete reason to believe this isn't needed.)

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