Christian Haugan Toldnes christian.toldnes@ntnu.no writes:
Howard Chu wrote:
Laurence Field wrote:
Laurence Field wrote:
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And now you know why (a) we recommend never using slapd as built by your distro vendor (particularly Red Hat and its derivatives) and (b) we always recommend using the most current code.
As this seems to be the one and only, always true answer, which covers all common openldap server scenarios, I can't help but wonder:
Why are there no pre-built, openldap-crew-certified, latest stable version, auto-updateable packages made available for most common server distros, including RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu LTS and Debian Stable?
When software are provided in source form only, the burden of pre-compilation configuration, compilation and quality assurance are placed on the user, which in most cases are less qualified, less informed, and less able to keep up to date with the work. Even more important, the risk of human error are multiplied by the number of users that accept this burden.
The combination of only releasing the software in source form, frequent development in the stable branch (too early too frequent), and continuously stating that vendor provided binary packages should NOT be used, places this software project way down on the list of software we want to include in a production environment, I am sorry to say. Sorry both because the alternatives are still quite expensive, and because openldap is what we currently use on our rather large and critical LDAP cluster.
This LDAP implementation has the potential to be on the very top of the list. But right now, it's found wanting.
I'm quite sure that we are not the only organization willing to pay good money for support contracts that includes up to date packages for our server distributions at any time. Feel free to cash in! :)
In fact there are prebuild packages available for a few Linux distributions:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5Server/openldap/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/ldap:/OpenLDAP:/ http://www.symas.com/cds.shtml Professional support you may get from specialised consultants all over the world and from selected Linux distributors.
-Dieter