[CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

Wed Jun 11 22:46:54 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:36 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > > I tried to do that, as I wanted to have LDAP overlays (hey, anyone who
> > > wants to test those on CentOS 5 - there are packages in the testing
> > > repository).
> > > 
> > > And I found out that you don't want to do that. There are too many
> > > packages which are built against openldap, you'd end up rebuilding a
> > > rather large part of the distribution. 
> > ----
> > IIRC, you have to build from source...
> > - openssl
> > - kerberos
> > - cyrus-sasl
> > - db4
> > - openldap
> > 
> > I built everything in /usr/local and just left the distribution packages
> > intact and it worked.
> 
> On my CentOS 5 install there are about 33 packages requiring a certain
> version of libldap and liblber.
----
as I said, I just left the distribution packages intact and built
everything in /usr/local

Craig