Re: Syncrepl issues in multi-versions environment

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

Thibault Le Meur wrote:
> Hi Quanah,
>
> I thank you for your answer.
>
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit :
> > --On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:12 PM +0200 Thibault Le Meur 
> > <Thibault.LeMeur@supelec.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > We are having serious issues with syncrepl replication and our 3 
> > > openldap
> > > servers. These issues first occurred when one of the servers was 
> > > upgraded
> > > to openldap 2.4.11 while the two others were (and still are)
> > > openldap-servers-2.3.39 and openldap-servers-2.3.30.
> >
> > I suggest examining the changelog for OpenLDAP 2.3, in particular the 
> > number of syncrepl related bugs since 2.3.30.
> To be honest I've already read this changelog: It is true that the list 
> of syncrepl/syncprov fixes is rather long and that a full upgrade to 2.4 
> is certainly recommended.
> Though, such an upgrade is not always easy to do in a production 
> environment: we have to prepare it carefully.
> Moreover, I'm not always able to understand the implications of each 
> fix. That's why I sent this email to the list with the aim to verify 
> that our structure is supported (at least by openldap 2.4).

Can you not use your test environment and replicate the setup?

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Gavin Henry.
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