Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> The patches for BDB 4.2.52 are freely available from Sleepycat. They are >> required to be in place if you want a stable BDB 4.2.52 distribution. I >> would be very surprised if the package maintainer hadn't already included >> the patches in their build. I also post links to the patches from my
> Yes, they are included. In fact, I would expect Debian BDB 4.2 to be much > more stable than whatever is available from Sleepycat, as a rule of thumb. Good good. :) >> As for BDB 4.3: >> You cannot use BDB 4.3 to load databases past a few million entries into >> OpenLDAP. The way BDB handles logs changed enormously between BDB 4.2 and >> BDB 4.3, and its log management is not stable, often running out of >> space. In addition, numerous users have written the OpenLDAP list >> complaining of issues they've hit using BDB 4.3 with OpenLDAP 2.2. The >> solution was for them to move back to BDB 4.2.52+patches. This became > I would expect that to cause trouble with just about everything that uses > huge indexes and databases with BDB 4.3. Or does it show up only in > OpenLDAP usage patterns (OpenLDAP is known to find all lurking bugs in BDB > that others never hit :-) ). Well, I only use BDB with OpenLDAP, so I can't say one way or the other. ;) >> In short, I cannot find a single reason to run OpenLDAP against BDB 4.3, >> and even the current OpenLDAP release notes that BDB 4.2 is required. I >> can find many reasons to not use BDB 4.3. > Not good. That might mean a lot of trouble to get 4.3 out of sarge, and > revert all packages back to 4.2 :( Well, I'd say at least for OpenLDAP 2.2, it really needs to be done if a Debian wants to release a stable OpenLDAP setup. ;) --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITSS/Shared Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
