[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#254999: Bug#254999: slapd: postinst conflicts with daemontools (should also conflict with runit)

[Russ Allbery]

Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net> writes:

> imho, recent versions of the slapd package are easy enough to run inside
> a chroot, but doing so conflicts with the Debian policy of having all
> configuration files in /etc *only*.

That's only a policy about what Debian packages ship.  I don't think a
Debian package should ship a chroot environment, for I think fairly
obvious reasons, but a script to set one up, if one wrote such a script,
could certainly be included.

> I mean that such a service would probably have to run unter
> /srv/openldap (other suggested locations?), and that the logging in
> runit, which one imnsho really wants to have, needs custom logcheck (and
> logrotate) scripts to integrate.

Ah.  Yes, probably.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>