In regard to: Re: symlinks deleted on upgrade, but not during reinstall,...:
CentOS 5.6 uses openldap-2.3. Version 2.3 uses the older (and often broken) slurpd method to replicate LDAP changes across nodes. We are using openldap-2.4 with a simple "make install" on CentOS 5.6 boxes currently. I'm attempting to make an openldap-2.4 RPM as a drop-in replacement for CentOS 5.6 servers. The issue is that openldap-2.3 (mostly the libldap-2.3.so.0 file) is a dependent of many other packages (pam, nss, passwd, etc). This is why I'm trying to get my openldap-2.4 package to "Provide" the 2.3 shared objects--to satisfy that dependency and be a suitable upgrade to openldap-2.3.
Having been in this situation, my advice is to leave the CentOS openldap package installed, but make certain the openldap-devel, openldap-clients, and openldap-servers is not installed. That gets you the shared libraries and config files, but not much else. Build your openldap24 packages so that they keep their config files/directories elsewhere. I've been running production OpenLDAP 2.4.x on a couple RHEL 5.7 servers this way, and it has worked well. The only issue is that admins need to know that /etc/openldap isn't the place to look for the config files that your package is using. As an aside, if your OpenLDAP is very busy, consider building against an alternate malloc implementation. That's not stressed in the admin guide as much as it has been on the mailing list. Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
