[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#725091: Bug#725091: slapd with memory leak in active sync

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Thomas Sesselmann
<thomas.sesselmann at uni-jena.de> wrote:
> Sounds like ITS#7487 (http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7487;page=6)

I agree, it does sound like the same bug.

Quanah is correct that several fixes are needed to 2.4.31 in order to
have working MMR (and probably several more depending on the overlays
you use), and I agree that the fastest way to a working server is
probably to build your own from recent upstream code.

That said, if you prefer to try to achieve a package based on 2.4.31
with patches applied to satisfy your requirements, I'm happy to
provide any help I can. It would probably involve a few iterations of
patching and testing (and might be better discussed away from this
particular bug since we already diverged from the original subject:
memory leak with LDAP Sync).

To build a package with some local changes applied, the basic workflow
looks like:

  apt-get build-dep openldap && apt-get source openldap && cd
openldap-2.4.31 && <make your changes> && dch -l jena &&
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

See http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/debian-packaging.html
for more guidance.

Your other option would be to wait until a newer upstream version is
introduced into unstable and then install that, possibly rebuilding it
for wheezy if the library dependencies changed.