Bug#316389: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#316389: Please apply this patch

Clint Adams schizo at debian.org
Thu Mar 22 15:15:43 CET 2007


> The bug listed here incorrectly links to my site.  It should have linked to 
> the official BDB site, as this bug is from the BDB folks themselves.
> 
> <http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.2.52/patch.4.2.52.html>
> 
> In particular, this is patch #5.  It is *required* for the later OpenLDAP 
> 2.2 and all of OpenLDAP 2.3 to work right.  The severity here needs to 
> raised to grave, as the OpenLDAP distributed with etch cannot function 
> correctly without this patch.

Just to clarify here for all fascinated readers:

This bug is, or was originally, about the patch at
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/build/Attic/BerkeleyDB42.patch?rev=1.5.4.1&hideattic=1&sortbydate=0

According to OpenLDAP CVS commit logs and this Faq-O-Matic entry,
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/44.html
this unofficial BDB patch is obsoleted by OpenLDAP 2.3.

The vendor patch to which Quanah refers was the subject of a brief
mailing list thread beginning here
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-db-devel/2007-February/001157.html
and continuing here
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-db-devel/2007-March/001161.html

but no bug report was generated as a result of that thread as far as I
am aware.

In the interest of making me less confused, I am presently going to make
a new bug that is explicitly about vendor patch #5.




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