[Pkg-openldap-devel] Upgrade Failure on wheezy from 2.4.31-1+nmu2 => 2.4.31+really2.4.40-3~bpo70+1

[Ryan Tandy]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote:
>I hope posting bug reports about the not yet released wheezy backport
>is correct here.

Appreciated. If there are any bugs it'd be great to squash them before 
releasing the package. :)

>I tried installing the backport on a system that has 2.4.31-1+nmu2
>installed but not configured in any way (/etc/ldap/slapd.d is empty)
>and in this case the postinst script fails:

[...]

>sed: can't read /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif: No such file or directory

Improving this is on my (lengthy) TODO list, but basically, the scripts 
assume that if /etc/ldap/slapd.d exists, then it contains a valid 
configuration. If you delete the directory, it'll generate a new 
configuration and then the init script ought to work. Alternatively, you 
could temporarily disable (chmod -x or policy-rc.d) the init script, 
long enough to finish the upgrade.

hope that helps,
Ryan