Re: back-config and slapadd

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to initialize the back-config database by slapadd-ing  
> a small ldif-File (based on the slapd.ldif from CVS HEAD). However I ran into 
> various issues with regard to the ordering of the different database objects 
> and it unclear to me how exactly this is supposed to work.
> The sample slapd.ldif from CVS does not contain any ordering information 
> (the "{digit}" string). It can be slapadd-ed it with out any problem. But 
> after starting slapd (or any slaptool) I see some strange effects, e.g. I 
> suddenly have two frontend-databases in back-config (one with index -1 and 
> the other without any index).
> In order to try to fix this I'd like to find out how slapadd-ing back-config 
> databases is supposed to work.
>
> 1. Should slapadd work with LDIF files that do not have any ordering numbers 
> for the databases in them?
>
> 2. Should slapadd work with LDIF files that does not explicitly contain the 
> mandatory cn=frontend and cn=config databases?
>
> I'd assume yes as the answer for both questions. The current code however 
> shows all kinds of weird behaviour with regard to both points and I'd like to 
> fix that.
Yes, both of those are supposed to work. They were fine the last time I 
looked, haven't checked HEAD recently.

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