Re: (ITS#6987) cn=config renumbers indexes on startup without modrdn-ing them

[hyc@symas.com]

Ondrej Kuznik wrote:
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> On 01/12/2012 12:27 PM, hyc@symas.com wrote:
>> This ITS still appears to me to be invalid. bconfig treats all siblings *of
>> the same type* as a single ordering. Your demonstration code is claiming your
>> entries are all of the same type, even though they aren't. I.e., all entries
>> in cn=config of a given type have only one distinguished naming attribute. You
>> have used olcTestAttrOne and olcTestAttrTwo for the same type, so cn=config
>> doesn't distinguish them in its sort order.
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> I tried implementing a check for Cft_Misc that considers only siblings
> of the same distinguished naming attribute:
> ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ondrej-kuznik-20120309-ITS-6987.patch

I've committed a cleaned up version of this patch to git master. Thanks for 
the patch.
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> During an IRC conversation in January you suggested not renumbering
> Cft_Misc entries at all, like the patch below. Such a change might
> however affect other overlays since captive backends seem to be regarded
> as Cft_Misc entries too, based on my tests with it:
> ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ondrej-kuznik-20120309-ITS-6987-no-renumbering.patch

Decided we don't know enough about how Cft_misc entries will be used in the 
future to take this approach.
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> The attached file is derived from OpenLDAP Software. All of the
> modifications to OpenLDAP Software represented in the following
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> Ondrej Kuznik
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