[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#738641: FTBFS: Transition from libdb5.1-dev to libdb5.3-dev

[Ryan Tandy]

On 15/03/14 01:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Do you know if the db5.1->db5.3 transition introduces any on-disk 
> incompatibilities, for either the database or the log?

According to the upstream changelogs [1][2], the database format did
not change in 5.2 or 5.3, but the log format changed in 5.2 and again
in 5.3.

[1]
http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog_5_2.html
[2]
http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog_5_3.html

I built slapd against libdb5.3-dev in a test environment, and it
refused to open an existing database:

bdb(dc=example,dc=com): BDB1538 Program version 5.3 doesn't match
environment version 5.1

So, I think (n.b.: I'm not an expert) that a dump and reload is
necessary for this transition, same as 4.8->5.1 and 4.7->4.8.