[Kolab-devel] Upgrading to db 4.3

[Buchan Milne]

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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).
> 
> Does anybody know more about this?

Anyone using db4.3 by default at present has migrated prematurely IMHO
... Mandriva uses 4.2.52.4 (with patch for OpenLDAP 2.3, see below) by
default at present, although 4.3.27 is available (but nothing is built
against it).

AFAIK, most OpenLDAP developers haven't been happy with 4.3.27, 4.3.28
may be better, but none of the developers have yet noted that it is any
better. I haven't yet tried myself ...

BTW, what OpenLDAP version would be included? For 2.3.x, an additional
DB4.2 patch is recommended (available in build/ in current CVS).

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                              Systems Architect
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng          RHCE (803004789010797),LPIC-1 (LPI000074592)
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