Re: 2.2.x or 2.1.x? db4.1.24 or db 4.2.52 (plus patches)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:00 PM -0600 Edward Rudd 
<eddie@omegaware.com> wrote:

> What is the recommended version for OpenLDAP. and DB4 (for the bdb
> backend).. Currently I am running OpenLDAP 2.1.22 with DB 4.1.24 plus
> DB4 patches.  And am wondering if moving to DB 4.2.52 is a "good thing"?
> What benefits/bug fixes are in the new DB over the current one I am
> running. And what new features are in the new release of OpenLDAP that
> would necessitate an upgrade.  Currently I am upgrading to Cyrus IMAPd
> 2.2.3 (from 2.1.15), Postifx 2.0.16 (from 1.1.12), and well might as
> well upgrade it all if it's worth it..  One note is that I am using the
> ldapdb auxprop plugin, so the functionality of that plugin is a MUST.  I
> am currently recompiling my openldap 2.1.22 with an applied patch from
> HEAD to fix an issue with Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.3.

Hi Edward,

(1) You should definitely upgrade BDB from 4.1.24 to 4.2.52 + the 2 
patches.  4.2.52 has a number of fixes over 4.1 that help the underlying 
methodology of OpenLDAP work better.

(2) I would suggest 2.1.25 at this time.  My tests on 2.2.5 so far indicate 
some things that need to be resolved before running it in a production 
environment.

Results of various tests of mine (still being filled in) can be seen at:

http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/directories/statistics/

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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