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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:14:26 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to net/openldap22-sasl-server giving fits
Message-ID:  <20040729211426.GC9911@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200407291450.49400.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200407291101.15091.kirk@strauser.com> <20040729111516.U63843@carver.gumbysoft.com> <200407291450.49400.kirk@strauser.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 29), Kirk Strauser said:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:21, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > It would not suprise me if you need to dump + reload your database to
> > update to a new bdb schema in openldap2.2.
> 
> <whine>But I don't WANT to reload my database!</whine>
> 
> Is there a generalized way to upgrade Berkeley databases?  I tried to 
> RTFDocs, but they seem to be aimed at BDB programmers ("Simply call the 
> DB->transmogrify method...") instead of command-line users.

db_dump / db_load  is the standard way, I think.  This only applies if the
change was strictly a db3 -> db4 change.  If openldap changed its database
layout, etc, they would need to provide a conversion script.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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