There was some mention recently about issues with the berkeley database routines and openldap.
I've been having problems with openldap-2.2.23-2.3.0.src.rpm and db-4.3.27.3-2.3.0.src.rpm under OpenPKG Release 2.3 in which the ldapsearch functions hang when doing searches that return large numbers of matches (I've set sizelimit unlimited in slapd.conf and SIZELIMIT 0 in ldap.conf). I'm attempting to use openldap for authentication on a system with about 7,000 accounts which results in about 14,000 ldap entries minimum as we're setting up things for personal address books when creating the authentication entries. I tried updating the berkeley routines to db-4.3.29.0-2.5.0.src.rpm and to openldap-2.3.11-2.5.0.src.rpm from Release 2.5 (enduring the usual grief when updating the Berserkely routines :-). The resulting system still had search problems, and, in addition, slapcat and slapindex died with memory faults. I guess my first question is, is there a better back end to use with openldap than the Berkeley DB? Personally I would be willing to give up a bit of performance to get away from BDB with it's absolutely ugly coding kludges and version compatibility problems. Every time sleepycat updates BDB, it seems to break anything that uses it. There were major issues with Release 2.3 caused by going from db-4.2.52 to db-4.3.x. My biggest problems were with python and perl, two of the more complex packages around. It seems to me that it would be a Good Idea(tm) to hold off updating the BDB in OpenPKG until it has been around long enough for other packages to adjust to its Latest & Greatest API. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The Income Tax has made more Liars out of American people than Golf has.'' Will Rogers ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
