[LDAP-interop] Working combination of packages

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:53 PM -0500 Ron Wheeler 
<rwheeler at artifact-software.com> wrote:

> I am going to build a mail server with LDAP.
> In reading the documentation, there is a bit of conflict in the Open LDAP
> documentation. The www site calls for the latest version of Berkeley but
> the README on the distribution calls for Berkeley 4.2 (but does not
> mention patches)
>
> Does anyone have any comments on the following software set?
> OpenLDAP 2.3.11
> OpenSLL 0.9.8
> SASL 2.1.21
> Berkeley 4.3.29
>
> This is the latest of each. The Berkeley stuff is notoriously poor
> regarding upwards compatibility, so I would be most interested in hearing
> from anyone who has tried 4.3 with software that previously ran with 4.2.

BerkeleyDB 4.3 was very unusable in its earlier releases, but most of this 
was fixed by 4.3.27.  4.3.29 should be okay.  The only caveat is that when 
you go to slapadd your database, you are pretty much going to always need 
to use -q if you want it to load in a reasonable amount of time.  Some of 
the options that one could use in 4.2 to improve normal slapadd's loading 
time cannot be used in 4.3.

The main thing to to make sure you have properly configured the DB_CONFIG 
file, regardless of the BDB release you use.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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