Re: (ITS#5809) syncrepl + back-ldif + "rename to same DN" fails

[ando@sys-net.it]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

>> I'm hitting an issue like this in some of the replication tests I'm
>> currently performing.  For this purpose, I think we could hack
>> ldapsearch (or add a new prog, or use a script on ldapsearch output)
>> that sorts entries content attribute-wise and, within each attribute,
>> value-wise.  Something like "sort" applied entry-wise after unwrapping
>> line folding, optionally case-insensitive would probably suffice.
> 
> I have a script somewhere from Matt Backes @ Symas that sorts LDIF 
> files. It was useful for seeing if it made any difference in slapadd (it 
> didn't).

Well, if it were distributable, and written in a widely supported 
scripting language, it would be quite useful...

p.


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