Lars Müller wrote:
what are the reason against the approach suggested by Michael?
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I know from conversations with Ralf in the past that we intended to have the older tools available to dump the database _after_ the update of the operating system was performed. IIRC the main argument was the time needed for the dump. Therfore the hack with the 2.3 based tools. I'm not sure if that is really obsolete. We must keep this in mind while there might be other ways to address this. [..] @Michael: So how do you intend to address the migration instead?
OpenLDAP 2.3 was set to status historic years ago. And everybody still running any SuSE version with OpenLDAP 2.3 will likely not be able to do an *in-place* upgrade to a recent version. Personally I distrust such automagic in-place migrations anyway. That's not what I would recommend to any of my customers running even a minor critical OpenLDAP deployment. One example: ACL processing changed from 2.3 to 2.4 so one has to adjust/test the configuration for such an upgrade anyway. Also today you should also migrate from back-bdb or back-hdb to back-mdb since the former got obsoleted now by the OpenLDAP project. I'm rather against automagic if you cannot make 100% sure that it works. Ciao, Michael.