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  1. Bug #658227
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 658227

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 658227] Re: upgrade process does not upgrade underlying BDB format from 4.7 to 4.8 (so slapd aborts with "Program version 4.8 doesn't match environment version 4.7" error message)

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 05:32:03PM -0000, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 16:31:20 -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > That's not unavoidable; just bump the minimum version check to the
> > maverick release version instead of the lucid version. New
> > installations of maverick will get an excess database dump/restore, but
> > the upgrade will be clean for everyone.

> Yeah, that's what I was going to suggest at first, but I don't think it
> will cover all the cases.

> Say someone had a working Lucid version of slapd they've already tried
> upgrading to the Maverick release 2.4.23-0ubuntu3, and they haven't ever
> done the manual "db4.7_XXXX" steps to convert the database. In that
> case, they'll still have a v4.7 BDB environment in their /var/lib/ldap
> directory... but the version of slapcat installed on their machine will
> be from 2.4.23-0ubuntu3.

Ah, you're probably right then and I'm just misremembering how this was
handled in Debian.

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