Re: LDBM VS. BDB on OpenBSD 3.9

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

--On Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:10 PM -0400 Aaron Richton 
<richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> > Ok, I'll bite -- which one ?  I can't seem to find anyone with truly
> > up-to-date OL packages.
>
> I've started taking a hard look at this recently, because we're going to
> deploy our first live slapd-running Linux boxes relatively soon (a quarter
> or two). To my surprise (relative to openldap-software conventional
> wisdom) 2.3.21 packages are easy to come by. So far, I've found:
>
> * Fedora Rawhide
> * Gentoo ~x86
> * Mandriva Cooker
> * FreeBSD ports
> * SuSE ftp.suse.com "not official update" (bonus points: 2.4alpha as well)
>
>
> The catch is that, with the possible exception of FreeBSD ports, these are
> all categorized "unofficial" by the vendor/project/upstream entity. But I
> imagine many of these are released in the hope they get feedback, and such
> feedback will go somewhere other than /dev/null. On top of that, users of
> current versions are encouraged to come here anyway. So I'm not sure how
> bad it may or may not be, in practice, to use the bleeding edge packages.
> Does anybody out there actually do this--are there war stories?

I don't know if it counts as "using" bleeding edge packages, but I tend to 
build & install the latest versions of OpenLDAP myself and deploy them.  So 
I'm usually on the latest release on my servers.  The only time I tend to 
lag is going between minor versions (2.2 -> 2.3 for example).  I think for 
2.2 to 2.3, I didn't switch until 2.3.17 or so.

The question that also remains, of course, is how does the distro actually 
package OpenLDAP.  For example, I use SASL/GSSAPI, which means it needs to 
be compiled against Kerberos libraries in my case.  However, if the server 
is compiled against MIT Kerberos, performance is impacted fairly 
significantly, which means I only want OpenLDAP compiled against Heimdal. 
Then, what version of Heimdal are they using?  I currently use Heimdal 
0.7.2, the latest release... But that may not be available.  Etc etc.

I honestly don't know that even after I switch to linux in the next month 
or two, if I'll ever actually use distro packages.

--Quanah

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