On Friday 17 April 2009 08:02:04 Adrien Futschik wrote:
Le jeudi 16 avril 2009 19:05:58, Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit :
--On Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:18 PM +0200 Adrien Futschik
adrien.futschik@atosorigin.com wrote:
Le jeudi 16 avril 2009 14:04:44, Michael Ströder a écrit :
Adrien Futschik wrote:
I am aware I should migrate, but for the moment, the only solution I have would be to migrate to OpenLDAP 2.3.32,
Why? Please don't take this personally. But if that is because you strictly rely on Linux distribution packages I'd like to note that your operational concept is already flawed.
Because the client I am working for uses source-compiled versions of OpenLDAP and is curently running 2.3.11 or 2.3.32. There is no newer package for the moment. We are working on a OpenLDAP 2.4.16 or newer, but, production is critical and we can not wait for this one to be released (by our team).
I know very well that many changes have been made between 2.3.11 and the latest 2.3.x and even between 2.3.32 and the latest 2.3.x, but we can not afford to migrate to 2.4.x right now.
At a minimum, you should be using 2.3.43 on all your servers. You should be responsible for making sure your client uses the most up to date and stable release available for them to use, if you are given them support. Otherwise, you are failing in that support relationship.
In case of this client no. It is long to explain, and therefore, I will not explain it here, but upgrading is'nt always an option.
For your information, between the time OpenLDAP releases a version and the time the projects might actualy use it, is about 6-7 month. That's because of the whole compilation/testing/validation/packaging/releasing process that the client is using. It has been so for many year now.
Well, 3 of those steps (compilation,testing, packaging) should honestly take no more than 1 hour, if they are using any kind of decent build system ... (since OpenLDAP has had quite a comprehensive test suite since about 2.2.20, which can be run during the compilation/packaging).
Regards, Buchan