On 8/9/21 10:58 AM, Philipp Wagner wrote:
On 07.08.21 09:03, Michael Ströder wrote:
On 8/5/21 9:17 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Also: I'm running a 2.4 mdb file with 2.5, not large, but reading it with slapcat and/or an active slapd seems to work. (Only until I hit an impasse, I guess.)
More information in this thread:
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/t...
TL;DR: - DB reload is not necessary if you don't use the new back-mdb options. - In release 2.5.7 slapcat will be able to dump 2.4 MDB files without prior start of slapd.
Thanks for sorting this out, Michael.
I'd then suggest to just wait for the 2.5.7 release to come out, and then we can provide OpenLDAP 2.5 as normal update to OpenLDAP 2.4.
Agreed.
If users have been running 2.4 before, they won't be using new back-mdb options, so the update should always work.
One more serious issue to sort out: If users are still running back-hdb or even the ancient back-bdb they won't be able upgrade because in your build these deprecated back-ends are disabled. They won't even be able to slapcat their databases. Personally I think those users should have migrated their DBs to back-mdb years ago. But what's the position of the openSUSE project on this? Ciao, Michael.