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

Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah at stanford.edu
Thu Mar 22 19:49:17 CET 2007



--On Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:15 AM -0400 Clint Adams 
<schizo at debian.org> wrote:

>> 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/BerkeleyD
> B42.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/00115
> 7.html and continuing here
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-db-devel/2007-March/001161.h
> tml
>
> 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.

Thanks!

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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