[Pkg-openldap-devel] 2.4.12

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:18:50PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Just FYI, I'm currently prepping OL 2.4.12.  There's a major change in 
> 2.4.12 over the prior 2.4.11 (and earlier) releases, in that it uses BDB 
> transactions instead of locks for operations.  This means that OpenLDAP 
> 2.4.12 and later only support BDB 4.4 or later.  I don't believe this is an 
> issue for Debian.

In fact that sounds like something it would have been nice to have some time
ago, to let us ditch db4.2 from lenny, since slapd is one of only 5 packages
using it. :/

> There's also an additional matching rule added, which means a database
> dump/reload when upgrading from any prior release of 2.4 (or from 2.3, but
> that's the case anyway).

> If possible, rather than going to OpenLDAP 2.4.11 from OpenLDAP 2.4.10, 
> it'd be nice if debian was able to go to 2.4.12.  But I understand that's 
> not entirely likely anyhow. ;)

I'm pretty sure we can get 2.4.11 in for lenny, but a substantial BDB change
isn't really a option at this stage of the freeze.

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