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. If users have been running 2.4 before, they won't be using new back-mdb options, so the update should always work. And if things still go wrong, the newer slapcat provides a convenient way to recover. I'll close the update SR for now, and open a new one with 2.5.7 once available. Philipp