  Re: Migrating openldap db backend from ibdm to bdb  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 are OpenLDAP releases more buggy than other
packages, or are existing bugs more likely to be fatal, or...?
I had the impression that this was mostly a RedHat issue.  But
if it's more general, it sounds like the only likely fix would
be in OpenLDAP or the release methods or something.  It's more a
general problem with the decoupled nature of linux distros.
OpenLDAP is simply mentioned a