kpropd issue when upgrading from 1.8.2 to 1.13.2

[John Devitofranceschi]

> On Jun 30, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 06/27/2015 02:18 AM, John Devitofranceschi wrote:
>> It seems that the 1.8.2 dump file claims to be ipropx, but it still only has the old-style policy records and that makes the 1.13.2 kpropd’s resync fail when kdb5_util is loading the kdb.
> 
> It looks like we messed up when adding the 1.11 policy extensions, and
> did not preserve iprop dump format compatibility.  I have filed an issue
> here:
> 
>    http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8213
> 
>> Are there any other possible work-arounds that don’t involve recompiling?
> 
> I don't believe so.  We can retroactively add compatibility with
> pre-1.11 iprop dump files, but that would require recompiling (or
> upgrading to some future version).

Okay, I’ll just continue to use my kdb5_util wrapper on our upgraded slaves until our master is upgraded and then revert to the unwrapped kdb5_util binary everywhere.

Thanks for the info.

jd