Re: slapd(8) adds objects without adding structuralObjectClass -> blocks replication

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Christian Haugan Toldnes <christian.toldnes@ntnu.no> writes:

> I do have to wonder though; does this mean that it's commonly known in
> the LDAP community that distributiors are notoriously bad at maintaining
> LDAP server packages in general, as opposed to other software? Or do you
> consider this advice to be general to all server software, in which case
> I would have to disagree.. :)

The pace of change of the OpenLDAP server is considerably faster than any
distribution could hope to track in a stable release, and even faster than
many unstable distributions can track if they do any significant QA on the
packages and don't have a lot of manpower.

The clients and client libraries are much more stable and don't change
nearly as fast as the server.

The server that comes with a distribution, particularly a stable release,
is therefore always going to be significantly out of date, and is best
thought of as a reasonable solution for limited purposes that involve no
new features, no special perfomance requirements, and no behavior that's
likely to trigger any rarely-used code paths or bugs.  As soon as you
start talking about advanced features like multi-master replication, or
significant performance requirements, you're going to want to be running
the fast-changing current code.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>