Re: "Upgrading from 2.3.x" section in Changes Appendix for Admin Guide

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think it's worth adding an upgrading section, as I'm just playing with a
> copy of a live 2.3.38 system and an upgrade to LDAP_REL_ENG_2_4 is giving:
>
> olcReplicationInterval: value #0: <olcReplicationInterval> keyword is
> obsolete (ignored)
> str2entry: invalid value for attributeType objectClass #0 (syntax
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.38)
> => ldif_enum_tree: failed to read entry for
> /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/cn=include{0}.ldif
> slaptest: bad configuration file!
>
> Admittedly, no slapcat was done as the bdb env is the same, but thought
> I'd do what a normal user would ;-)
>
> Should we list obsolete values from bconfig.c that will apply and
> discuss/present the best way to upgrade?

Obsolete values don't matter; like the message said - it was simply ignored.

The problem you ran into here is that 2.3.x had cn=include entries (which were 
also ignored in 2.3) but support for them was axed in 2.4. So, just delete all 
the cn=include* files from the config directory.

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