[csw-maintainers] Cyrus imapd update

[Rafael Ostertag]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Yann Rouillard wrote:
> The configuration file you used explicitly configured berkeleydb as
> the backend.
> 
> The bug is triggered if the administrator kept the default settings
> (and I suppose some admins do not change this setting).
> The default backend for most cyrus database was berkeleydb before
> 2.4 and is now skiplist since 2.4.
Yes, I saw that, but I was referring to `what if somebody has explicitely set berkeleydb'.

> 
> Cyrus tries to automagically upgrade from berkeleydb to skiplist and
> this is what didn't work as expected in my tests.
> 
> Have a look at the bug I opened upstream
> https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3496, I explained the
> bug and attached files which should allow you to reproduce the bug.
> You will notice the bug happens the second time you launch cyrus.
> 
> (Although I am surprised you didn't run into some berkeleydb problem
> if you upgraded to berkeleydb 4.8).

Me too, taking into account what I heard so far about bdb. Did bdb 4.8 improve
that, perhaps?

It appears from your bug report, that only deliver.db is affected, and since it
is used `only' for duplicate delivery supression, why not taking a radical
approach and just kill it on upgrade?

--rafi
> 
> Yann
> 
> 
> Le 21/01/2012 13:40, Rafael Ostertag a ?crit :
> >Hi Yann
> >
> >On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:55:39PM +0100, Rafael Ostertag wrote:
> >>>It will probably break the setup of people who explicitely
> >>>configured berkeleydb for cyrus database and the upgrade path should
> >>>be documented.
> >>Hmm, let me check this.
> >I used the this imapd.conf: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/538215/
> >
> >Same procedure:
> >
> >  1. installed 2.3.16
> >  2. created 2 users
> >  3. sent some mails
> >  4. upgraded to 2.4
> >
> >No errors so far. Would you say that is sufficient, or do we have to make a
> >more sophisticated test setup?
> >
> >cheers
> >rafi
> >
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