On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am trying to upgrde out openldap ver 2.3 to the lastest version >> 2.4, howevre there is no rpm avaibale for 2.4 so i decide to create my >> own for centOS flavour 5.2 > > > It's probably worth mentioning that the openldap version shipped with > centos is very heavily linked throughout the distribution. If you > upgrade the ldap version, you may have to provide older libraries for > backwards compatibility (as the base package does) or you'll have to > rebuild everything built against openldap against your new version. [solved] You were rith about the backwards compatibility issue , the older libraries would be liblber-2.3.so.0 and libldap-2.3.so.0 ........ . i was chking out the cent os dev maillist archives for this particular issue and foud that Jeff Sheltren created the src rpm the link here http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/ i jsut did a rpmbulid again the created spec file and it creates rpm called compat-openldap-2.4.11_2.3.27-1.3.el5.i386.rpm that does the magic :-D less compat-openldap-2.4.11_2.3.27-1.3.el5.i386.rpm lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 Mar 2 19:41 /usr/lib/liblber-2.3.so.0 -> liblber-2.3.so.0.2.15 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137508 Mar 2 19:41 /usr/lib/liblber-2.3.so.0.2.15 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 Mar 2 19:41 /usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0 -> libldap-2.3.so.0.2.15 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 757630 Mar 2 19:41 /usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0.2.15 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23 Mar 2 19:41 /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.0 -> libldap_r-2.3.so.0.2. 15 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 827929 Mar 2 19:41 /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.0.2.15 . . . Thanks again for all the help Agnello