[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#594714: Bug#594714: slapd upgrade may fail on unset SLAPD_CONF

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:31:48PM +0200, Matthijs Möhlmann wrote:
> > Matthijs, I can't understand your intention here.  I'm sure that the
> > last bit of the diff is wrong - we should *always* have a default
> > fallback value for SLAPD_CONF, not just in the file-based case - but I
> > don't understand the purpose of the first part of the diff.  In what
> > case is it necessary to override an already-set SLAPD_CONF variable on
> > configure, and why does this not also apply to other conditions besides
> > "postinst configure"?

> > Without understanding that, I'm not sure what the right way is to clean
> > this up.
> 
> Before 2.4.23-3 an empty value of SLAPD_CONF causes /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
> automatically be chosen by the slapd process. After 2.4.23-3 we have a
> sed one liner that automatically sets the SLAPD_CONF in the defaults
> file. By *not* setting the SLAPD_CONF at that point people were able to
> use /etc/ldap/slapd.conf as configuration style after version 2.4.23-3.

> I had a conversation in a bug report with Peter, but I can't find the
> bug log at this moment. I'll search tomorrow for it.

... anyway, I *still* don't understand the purpose of the first part of that
change, which overrides an already-set $SLAPD_CONF value but only in the
postinst.  Did you find the bug log that has this answer?

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