[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#594711: slapd: Migration of DB format fails during upgrade

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:12:01PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2010, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:25:13PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > Then I don't think this should be RC.  Downgrading to important,
> > > leaving it to the maintainers to close or handle as they wish.
> > 
> > Right, and I don't know of a good way to handle this.  We certainly
> > don't want to go back and re-upload openldap built against db4.7
> > just to do this transition.
> > 
> > Stefan, can you unpack the slapcat from testing's slapd package
> > onto your system, and try the upgrade again?

> Yes, downgrading to 2.4.17-2.1 and upgrading to 2.4.23-4 worked. 
> Somehow I assumed that the upgrade process required a running slapd, 
> but this is not the case.

> I still think that the info how to recover from such a problem should 
> be in README.Debian, though.

I'm more concerned with fixing our packaging so that the maintainers don't
accidentally upload such a broken package in the future. :)

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