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Greetings, |
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First a spot of background information: |
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I've been hammering my head against the LDAP server running on dev.g.o |
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and cvs.g.o for more than a week now. Several users will attest to the |
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strange bugs that have been seen (eg two near identical sets of user |
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information, one user can login, the other can't!). It's OpenLDAP |
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2.0.27-r4. The latest offical stable OpenLDAP is 2.1.22 and the current |
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testing is 2.2.0alpha. 2.0 is not even supported upstream anymore for |
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new deployments and everybody else is encouraged to upgrade. But wait a |
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minute you say, Gentoo is on the cutting edge! What is holding up |
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OpenLDAP? |
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The answer is quite simply: DB4. |
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pauldv has bug #23571 open to track what is stopping DB4 from going out. |
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They are (with my comments): |
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#22876 Heimdal 0.6 - this has a patch, just needs testing |
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#23575 nvi |
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#23578 dev-perl/DB_File-1.803-r2 - possible obsolete? |
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#23583 net-mail/courier-0.42.2 - the author last said he wasn't supporting DB4 yet. |
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#23586 net-mail/maildrop-1.5.2 - same as #23583. |
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#23587 net-misc/cfengine-2.0.6 - FreeBSD has it working |
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#23590 x11-misc/hotkeys-0.5.7.1 - last release Dec 8 2002 |
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These 7 bugs are holding up a large number of packages. |
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Previously the packages being held up were all hardmasked in |
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packages.mask, and AMD64 came along, removed the hardmask and instead |
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changed ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to amd64 only. |
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I have several production systems running fine at work with DB4 (4.1.25 |
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actually) and several packages that depend on DB4, but that is only |
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because I don't use those packages that are broken anyway. |
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Could I suggest for the moment that these packages that still don't work |
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with DB4 just have blocks applied for DB4, and DB4 (and 4.1) released in |
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the meantime? |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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