[krbdev.mit.edu #8213] Policy extensions in 1.11 break iprop dump compatibility
Greg Hudson via RT
rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Jun 30 12:51:29 EDT 2015
I believe we can retroactively add compatibility with pre-1.11 ipropx
dumps, by trying the 1.11 policy format and then the 1.8 format.
We can't retroactively add compatibility in the old-slave direction,
but compatibility in that direction is problematic anyway, as there is
no easy way to pass a per-slave flag to kdb5_util dump to generate an
old-format dump on the master. (With traditional kprop, the admin is
responsible for writing a cron job which generates the dump and invokes
kprop for each slave, and can generate older-format dumps for older
slaves in the job.)
Regardless of what we do, we need to document this issue where we talk
about upgrades.
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