matthew sporleder writes:
On 2/26/07, Hallvard B Furuseth h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
Using vendor packages to run an OpenLDAP server is nearly always a bad idea (Mandriva's a definite exception). There is almost nothing that motivates the vendor to use current releases, or backport stability fixes. There are known problems with the connection code in OL 2.3.27, for example, that were fixed in OpenLDAP 2.3.32. In general, use vendor packages at extreme risk.
Is there something particular which makes this more so for OpenLDAP than other packages, or (...) I had the impression that this was mostly a RedHat issue. (...)
It's more a general problem with the decoupled nature of linux distros. OpenLDAP is simply mentioned a lot on this list. :)
Ouch. Does that mean the way to have a solid system is to check the age of most of its major packages and compile newer ones myself?