Any problem with a 1.8MB blob in the tree? Re: Please try to upgrade an alpha10 when enforcing new rules in samdb

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:06 +0400, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hi andrew, metze,
> 
> On 16/08/2010 13:34, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:04 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:57:30PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >>> tdbdump would certainly be a reasonable option.  It would reconstruct
> >>> the tdb in a much more accurate manner than ldif would (due to modules,
> >>> indexes etc).
> >>>
> >>>> If we're talking about importing binary stuff from a stable release just
> >>>> once,
> >>>> for upgrade tests between major releases it might be acceptable to put them
> >>>> in (if we really can't find a text based solution), but for upgrades between
> >>>> alpha releases I think it's bad.
> >>> OK.  Could you help Matthieu if he has any problem with the scripts to
> >>> create and reconstruct from tdbdump files?
> >> You might want to look at the code in bug 6806. This is not
> >> perfect yet, but it is a start and I would like to give
> >> credit to the author.
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=4838&action=view
> >
> > That looks very useful - I had simply assumed it already existed!
> > Thanks for pointing it out!
> >
> Ok I understand the idea, for the moment I'm focusing on backupkey so as 
> a temporary solution can I still put 1 1.0 Mb blob in the repo as 
> already it will help us to identify problems ?

Given the problems described, no.  From all reports this isn't something
we can undo. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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