[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#770827: slapd: can't reconfigure dumping

[Ryan Tandy]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:06:35AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>During a wheezy -> jessie upgrade test with slapd/dump_database: never,
>it correctly skipped loading of my (MDB) database.  But slapd did not
>start:
>
>mdb_db_open: database "...": DN index needs upgrade, run "slapindex entryDN"
>
>http://brylov.info/2013/03/zimbra-8-0-2-8-0-3-update-failure led me to
>http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-announce/201303/msg00000.html,
>which explains the issue (DN index format change) and the solution.
>
>So MDB also needs some care during dist-upgrade.

Yikes! I didn't know about that. I was under the impression (e.g. [1]) 
that mdb databases could be upgraded from/to any 2.4.x version without 
issues. Thanks for bringing it up!

Ironically, since #759597 isn't fixed yet this should not be an issue 
for the jessie upgrade; but if we try again at backporting to wheezy we 
should make sure it's accounted for (maybe just reverting my change to 
avoid the dump/reload).

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750022#10

thanks,
Ryan