--On Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:10 PM -0400 Aaron Richton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, I'll bite -- which one ? I can't seem to find anyone with truly
up-to-date OL packages.
I've started taking a hard look at this recently, because we're going to
deploy our first live slapd-running Linux boxes relatively soon (a quarter
or two). To my surprise (relative to openldap-software conventional
wisdom) 2.3.21 packages are easy to come by. So far, I've found:
* Fedora Rawhide
* Gentoo ~x86
* Mandriva Cooker
* FreeBSD ports
* SuSE ftp.suse.com "not official update" (bonus points: 2.4alpha as well)
The catch is that, with the possible exception of FreeBSD ports, these are
all categorized "unofficial" by the vendor/project/upstream entity. But I
imagine many of these are released in the hope they get feedback, and such
feedback will go somewhere other than /dev/null. On top of that, users of
current versions are encouraged to come here anyway. So I'm not sure how
bad it may or may not be, in practice, to use the bleeding edge packages.
Does anybody out there actually do this--are there war stories?
I don't know if it counts as "using" bleeding edge packages, but I tend to
build & install the latest versions of OpenLDAP myself and deploy them. So
I'm usually on the latest release on my servers. The only time I tend to
lag is going between minor versions (2.2 -> 2.3 for example). I think for
2.2 to 2.3, I didn't switch until 2.3.17 or so.
The question that also remains, of course, is how does the distro actually
package OpenLDAP. For example, I use SASL/GSSAPI, which means it needs to
be compiled against Kerberos libraries in my case. However, if the server
is compiled against MIT Kerberos, performance is impacted fairly
significantly, which means I only want OpenLDAP compiled against Heimdal.
Then, what version of Heimdal are they using? I currently use Heimdal
0.7.2, the latest release... But that may not be available. Etc etc.
I honestly don't know that even after I switch to linux in the next month
or two, if I'll ever actually use distro packages.
--Quanah
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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