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

[Ryan Tandy]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 02:11:19PM +0100, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
>I wanted to manually set dumping to "never" before upgrading, because restoring
>the dump breaks on partial replicas (#614569).  However, dpkg-reconfigure slapd
>only asks if I want to "omit OpenLDAP server configuration", which I want, because
>the replication config is hand made.  Thus I don't get to reconfigure dumping,
>even though it has nothing to do with the server configuration itself.

If I'm reading correctly, the value of that choice isn't actually 
important here: the problem is that the question about configuring 
dumping is only presented on upgrade, not when (re)configuring a new or 
existing installation.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-openldap/openldap.git/tree/debian/slapd.config#n174

IMO, the dumping questions could be asked outside of that guard, even on 
initial installation (and certainly on reconfiguration), with a low 
priority.

>Trying to upgrade with DEBIAN_PRIORITY=medium does not work either due to another
>problem: I can switch off dumping then, and dumping is skipped all right, but the
>reload is attempted regardless and fails not finding the dump.

That's a bug, for sure. dump_databases() exits early if dumping is 
disabled, but the symmetric check in load_databases() is missing. That 
doesn't make a lot of sense. :)
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