Re: LDBM VS. BDB on OpenBSD 3.9

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:51 PM +0100 FRLinux <frlinux@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 5/10/06, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > I will note, however, that the people responsible for packaging OpenLDAP
> > for your distribution appear to be woefully behind in their duties, as
> > the current OpenLDAP release is 2.3.21 (and 2.3.22 will be out in a few
> > days). I would advise using the latest release of OpenLDAP, as hundreds
> > of bugs, some critical, have been fixed since 2.3.11 was released.
>
> Yes but ...
>
> As you know the OpenBSD project focuses on security and code audit.
> That is for that reason they did not include for instance the pam_ldap
> project as part of packages you can install for openldap.
>
> That being said, 2.3.11 has surely been audited and patched to include
> a couple of patches. Same reason you have packages freeze on other
> distros.

And again why I say that people who use distro-packaged OpenLDAP to run it 
as a server are nuts, because it will always tend towards being old and 
unreliable.  There were a lot of problems with the 2.3.11 release, and 
forcing that on end users is a disservice to them and the OpenLDAP 
community.

This statement of course excludes any distro that actually works to keep 
their distribution up to date, of which I think I can name 1...

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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