Re: ports/105585: OpenLDAP should not be linked with BDB 4.3

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Can someone please provide a succint response that I can relay in turn?  
> They refuse to listen to reason.

Two things: slapd is known to crash in various ways when using BDB 4.3 
under heavy load. Also, there was no database format change between BDB 
4.3 and 4.4. There was a logfile format change though, so you'll want to 
have a full checkpoint and remove all the obsolete log files.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:42:07 GMT
> From: Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>
> To: daveh@ci.com.au, delphij@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: ports/105585: OpenLDAP should not be linked with BDB 4.3
>
> Synopsis: OpenLDAP should not be linked with BDB 4.3
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: delphij
> State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 15 23:41:22 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Have you ever hit a bug with the current linkage?  The
> change would require a user to dump and re-import their
> database, so I need some evidence that BDB 4.3 is causing
> problem before I can make a change.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105585
>
> .



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