[Pkg-openldap-devel] Proposal for the configuration in debian.

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:38:19PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> >>>- - /etc/ldap/schema/*

> >>>The schema's that are needed to be included. This is already done.

> >>Uh, this is a problem.  I have plenty of files in my /etc/ldap/schema/
> >>directory which I do *not* expect to be included unconditionally in the
> >>running slapd's config; I have alternate revisions of schema files that
> >>I've tuned, I have conflicting schema files, and I even have an
> >>/etc/ldap/schema/README file...  I don't think it's right to include all
> >>of the schema files like this, I think it might be better to just
> >>include the core schema files and possibly create an additional
> >>/etc/ldap/slapd.d/ directory where packages can include config files
> >>that would document additional schemas, etc.

> >>At that point, I expect the load order would be:

> >>include /etc/ldap/slapd.d/*.conf
> >>include /etc/ldap/ldapdb/*.conf

> >>Note that the *.conf should give us a way of excluding old versions of
> >>conffiles, à la run-parts.

> >Didn't thought about that, good suggestion.

> Um, why are we creating a slapd.d directory?

> "slapd.d" has special meaning in OpenLDAP 2.3: It is the directory that 
> contains a cn=config backend.  We should not be creating *any* slapd.d 
> directories unless we are moving wholesale to cn=config, which I do not 
> recommend, since there are several overlays and backends that currently are 
> not supported with cn=config.

How... interesting.

Then I guess we need a different directory name for such config snippets.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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