Re: UPGRADING OPENLDAP

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:26 AM -0400 "Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL" 
<john.borresen@ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> Planning to upgrade our OpenLDAP from 2.4.23 to 2.4.31 shortly and just
> getting my ducks in a row.
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> 1) my current Berkeley flavor is 4.8.30
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> 2) As stated, OpenLDAP is 2.4.23 (using slapd.d)
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> Looking for any "gotchas" to be on look out for.
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> Can I do the upgrade on top of the current directory structure, restore
> the config then restart?
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> Am I going to need to upgrade my flavor of Berkeley?  I had originally
> attempted to use Berkeley 5.2.36 but never could get it to build/compile
> correctly on my platform (too many compilation errors to list).

There is no reason to upgrade your BDB version.  If you use the same BDB 
version, then you can deploy the new binaries on top of the existing 
OpenLDAP DB.  There are no incompatibilities at the OpenLDAP level between 
2.4.23 and 2.4.31.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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