-This patch is intended to be applied to Berkeley DB 4.2 and,
+This patch is intended to be applied to Berkeley DB 4.2.52 and,
if applied, will automatically be used by slapd(8) back-bdb/hdb.
+Without this patch the BDB DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE option will not work,
+nor will db_archive allow any transaction log files to be removed
+while slapd is running.
+
+The patch can be applied to the BDB source using patch(1) as follows
+ cd db-4.2.52
+ patch -p0 < openldap-src/build/BerkeleyDB42.patch
+
+(modify directory paths as necessary), then recompile and reinstall
+the BerkeleyDB 4.2 library, and then build and install OpenLDAP
+Software.
+
+The patch should not be applied to Berkeley DB 4.3.
Index: dbinc/db.in