[Pkg-openldap-devel] syncrepl replicating across slapd versions

[Geoff Crompton]

Hi,

I'm unsure if this is an appropriate forum, please let me know if it's 
not. We're currently running a Debian Wheezy slapd producer with slapd 
version 2.4.31-1+nmu2, doing syncrepl replicating to Debian Squeeze 
slapd consumers, running slapd 2.4.23-7.3.

We are seeing memory leaks with our producer, and suspect syncrepl bugs, 
as suggested by Quanah at 
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201502/msg00063.html.

We're planning on upgrading the producer to the backported slapd, 
version 2.4.31+really2.4.40-3~bpo70+1 (or the -4 once it's available) to 
avoid this problem.

I suspect it's not wise to replicate across different versions of slapd 
like we have already been doing, and I will transition all the consumers 
to the same version as soon as I can. But in the meantime, does anyone 
know if my proposed version combination (2.4.31+really2.4.40-3~bpo70+1 
replicating to 2.4.23-7.3) is going to be a bad idea?

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