Re: Upgrading to net/openldap22-sasl-server giving fits

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:14:26 -0500
In the last episode (Jul 29), Kirk Strauser said:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:21, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > It would not suprise me if you need to dump + reload your database to
> > update to a new bdb schema in openldap2.2.
> 
> <whine>But I don't WANT to reload my database!</whine>
> 
> Is there a generalized way to upgrade Berkeley databases?  I tried to 
> RTFDocs, but they seem to be aimed at BDB programmers ("Simply call the 
> DB->transmogrify method...") instead of command-line users.

db_dump / db_load  is the standard way, I think.  This only applies if the
change was strictly a db3 -> db4 change.  If openldap changed its database
layout, etc, they would need to provide a conversion script.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson_at_allantgroup.com
Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 19:14:29 UTC

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