[Kolab-devel] Upgrading to db 4.3

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:56:05PM +0200, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we're currently preparing the 2.0.1 release of the kolab server.  The
> most important change there will be the move to OpenPKG 2.4.  Among
> other things this means an upgrade of the Berkeley DB to version 4.3.
> So far it seems that this part of the upgrade has the most potential for
> Problems.
> 
> There have been suggestions that 4.3 may not be a good choice for
> openldap in a mail by Dieter Kluenter:
> http://kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-users/2005-May/002582.html 
> It's not quite clear to me, though, whether
> "LDBM is definitly NO choice, nor will be BerkeleyDB-4.3.27."
> means that bdb 4.3 should not be used or merely that it wouldn't solve
> the stability problem (the comment was about a message in issue707 which
> is about openldap stability).

That's also what I heard. So far, 4.2.52 + their two official patches
is the best choice, specially for openldap-2.3.x.