Re: OL 2.2 and syncrepl vs slurpd

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Francis Swasey wrote:
> Good day, folks;
>
> It appears the handwriting is on the wall that slurpd is going to be 
> dropped fairly soon (since it hasn't been updated since 2.0 and 
> doesn't work with the config backend in 2.3).
>
> I'm still working with OL 2.2 (on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 -- 
> locally built RPM's though) and seeing that Howard has posted that 
> syncrepl should not be used with 2.2 back in the summer -- I'm 
> wondering if that is still the prevailing thought or if syncrepl has 
> been improved in the 2.2.30 release enough that I could convert to 
> using syncrepl now and convert to OL 2.3 in the spring or summer (the 
> next time the student body is gone for a length of time).

Just to add to Ando's reply - using the OL 2.2 consumer with an OL 2.3 
provider should be safe.

I may push for dropping slurpd from OL 2.4, based on some replication 
refactoring that Ando has suggested.

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