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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 11/23/2010 05:30 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 11/23/10 5:55 AM, Jan Vcelak wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Currently, the upgrade process in openldap looks like this:
>> * during db4 package upgrade run db_upgrade (%triggerin and %triggerun)
>> * if minor version of openldap changes (e.g. 2.3 ->  2.4), export the database,
>>    delete it and import it back (which is recommended by maintanence guide, as
>>    Panu mentioned)
>>
>> We didn't wanted to do the export+import during each upgrade, as it takes
>> quite a long time if you have large database. But it seems that current
>> process doesn't work and that doing it every time will be the safest way.
>> (Maybe we can ignore epoch changes.)
>>
>> Thanks for suggestions. I will fix it today and push an update.
>>
>> Patric, thank you for reporting this. And sorry for the difficulties.
>
> Why was this update made on F14 in the first place?
>
IMO, this is the wrong question.

The better questions would be - How could it happen, this package made 
it into updates, dispite all this QA bureaucracy is in place?

Ralf