On Tuesday 14 October 2014 16:02:20 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:52:03AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > 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 ... > > CentOS6/7 don't resolve that issue for you?
Not an upgrade ... And if I have to reinstall from scratch then it'd be Gentoo, but that's a rather brutal amount of work since there's about 8 years of new features, changes in config files and so on (still on my todo list, but there's other fires burning more brightly) > > So far you're one user, but that's enough to warrant a news item. > > I would really like to get the old stuff out of the tree, it's been > around a very long time, has security issues, and the 2.3 ebuilds don't > comply with newer EAPIs and QA practices (I suspect that probably won't > even compile with newer berkdb and gnutls). Well, I'm also stuck with Samba 3.5 because upstream managed to break group permissions with LDAP in really hilarious ways. I don't have a strong objection to having to keep oldcruft in an overlay, but (like Samba) it'd be quite acceptable to have these ebuilds masked indefinitely
