Re: Debian Squeeze: Slapd subtree disappears, but ldapsearch finds it | unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region

[David Blank-Edelman <dnb@ccs.neu.edu>]

Hi Quanah-

On May 2, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:

> The OpenLDAP foundation has zero input or control into how distribution providers build their OpenLDAP packages.  Thus the end users are at the mercy of the distribution provider's decisions on building OpenLDAP, which are quite often extremely flawed.

Yes, it is a big bummer. Has the OpenLDAP foundation ever considered publishing any official guidelines that could be used both by these distributions and individuals who want to do their own packages? Just two lists of "Do this:…" and "Don't do this: …" would probably go a long way.

    -- dNb