On 10/14/14 05:22, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > For compatibility and migration support, we've kept the old OpenLDAP > 2.3.x ebuilds in the tree for nearly 5 years.
And you better keep them for a while, because some of us are stuck with 2.3, and mixed operation (e.g. master 2.4, slaves 2.3) is not supported. Since for example CentOS 5 is still around and there's no upgrade path, well, some people like me still have to use 2.3 ... > > OpenLDAP-2.4.x first went to stable 2009/11/04. > package.mask has blocked <net-nds/openldap-2.4.35 since 2014/03/20. > > I think the time has come to fully remove 2.3.x series, and the older > masked 2.4.x builds, so I strongly encourage everybody to move. Move away from other distros? Yes, that's definitely on my todo list, but it's not that easy, especially when it means upgrades to all services involved. > > The ebuild includes upgrade instructions, as in most major version > upgrades you need to dump+restore the database (both OpenLDAP major > versions, as well as changing backends or sys-lib/db major versions). > > Since it's been in package.mask for 6 months without reported bugs > complaining about this, I'm not going to announce it via a news item > unless there are strong demands to. >
