Urgent: today's F14 catastrophe with openldap-servers update

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Nov 24 02:28:35 UTC 2010


On 11/23/2010 07:36 PM, Jan Vcelak wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2010 19:13:09, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> Another related thing is that Berkeley DB which openldap uses is
>> notoriously picky about getting updated. I'm fairly certain openldap does
>> not update their bundled BDB version to prevent issues like this on minor
>> updates, and AFAICT (based on a quick lookaround at the changelogs etc) in
>> this case it was this fix to comply with our own policies (no bundled
>> libraries) that bit us when synced with rawhide version:
>>
>> * Fri Aug 27 2010 Jan Vcelak<jvcelak at redhat.com>  2.4.23-1
>> - rebase to 2.4.23
>> - embeded db4 library removed
>>
>>   	- Panu -
>
> You are right. My fault. :-(

No, it's not your fault (Or at least only partially). A functional QA 
would catch such kind of breakages.

Ralf





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