[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#688857: Bug#688857: slapd - Modifications by refint not replicated

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:18 PM +0200 Bastian Blank 
<waldi at debian.org> wrote:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.31-1
> Severity: important
>
> Modifications made by refint are not replicated. They neither update the
> modification timestamp nor the CSN used for replication. This is serious
> data loss, because the replicas gets out of sync pretty quickly. There
> seems to be no way to recover from this discrepancy without doing a
> complete replication.
>
> While this seems to be known, it is not documented at all in the
> man-pages related to the refint and memberof overlays. Also it violates
> the principle of least surprise, because the changes are not limited to
> operational attributes.

Hi Bastian,

refint is working as designed in this case.  I will file an upstream ITS 
for you to improve the documentation in this area.  In general, this really 
should have been filed as an upstream issue to begin with, as Debian really 
has nothing to do with OpenLDAP development or documentation.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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