[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#665199: slapd: fails to install, remove, distupgrade, and install again

[Niels Thykier]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:55:14 -0700 Ryan Tandy <ryan at nardis.ca> wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: tag -1 - squeeze
> 
> Somehow this bug was fixed in squeeze via p-u, but never in unstable. So 
> while squeeze->wheezy upgrades were fixed, wheezy->jessie upgrades are 
> still affected, and jessie->stretch upgrades will be affected as soon as 
> I commit the ppolicy upgrade patch I'm working on.
> 
> Installing slapd in wheezy, removing (but not purging) it, 
> dist-upgrading to jessie, and then installing slapd again fails as in 
> the original report.
> 
>   Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.31-2+deb7u1... done.
>   Moving old database directories to /var/backups:
>   - directory dc=example,dc=com... done.
>   Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.4.31-2+deb7u1:
>   - directory dc=example,dc=com... failed.
> 
> Loading the database from the LDIF dump failed with the following
> error while running slapadd:
>     /var/backups/slapd-2.4.31-2+deb7u1/dc=example,dc=com.ldif: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package slapd (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> 
> 

Ping on this - we would like to see this fixed properly for stretch.

There is a debdiff in #665199 comment #80 (albeit for squeeze) that
might be helpful.

Thanks,
~Niels