[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)

[Steve Langasek]

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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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)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658227
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