[Pkg-openldap-devel] Backporting slapd out of jessie to wheezy possible?

[georg at riseup.net]

Hi,

On 14-11-15 18:06:58, Luca Bruno wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2014 03:38:44 georg at riseup.net wrote:
> 
> > I've just experienced a problem if cn=config with modifiersdn outside
> > cn=config breaks recovery using slapadd, which is also described at [1].
> > According to this thread this was fixed in upstream git master in May
> > 2013.
> 
> I don't have a copy of the source at hand, but according to the ticket log it  
> probably landed in 2.4.36, so Jessie package should be ok.

Yeah, I think so too, that's why I asked.

> Generally speaking, as we have just entered the freeze, I would encourage you 
> and anybody reading this mail to give a try to Jessie and openldap 2.4.40-2 in 
> a staging environment with your production-like config, in order to catch any 
> glitches before release.  

I've just tried this, via a cloned production vm, using apt-get
dist-upgrade. The process went without any glitches and quite smoothly: 

[...]
Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.31-1+nmu2...
done.
  Moving old database directories to /var/backups:
  - directory dc=test,dc=de... done.
  Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.4.31-1+nmu2: 
  - directory dc=test,dc=de... done.
  - chowning database directory (openldap:openldap)... done
[ ok ] Starting OpenLDAP: slapd.
[...]

Also, using 2.4.40-2, the problem described in my first mail is indeed
fixed.

> > Thats why I would like to ask if it would be possible to backport slapd
> > out of jessie to wheezy? I could offer any help, if needed.
> 
> Speaking of that, I've also been asked at work for a wheezy bpo, so I'm 
> interested on backporting/sponsoring it as soon as I have a timeslot for it.

This would be awesome! Just let me know if there is anything I could do
to support you / anybody else. 
 
> Cheers, Luca

Thanks,
Georg
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