[Pkg-openldap-devel] LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution

[Jamie Thompson]

On 03/09/2012 22:56, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:50:57PM +0100, Jamie Thompson wrote:
>> Not sure where it's best to start this discussion, but here seems a
>> good a place as any.
>>
>> In brief, I have all my account information in LDAP. Problem is, I
>> have to manually add slapd into most of my init scripts to make sure
>> the ordering is correct and that my accounts DB is up in time for
>> starting the services. This then means merging in updates which gets
>> *very* tiresome.
>>
>> The article http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/#line-116 shows
>> several virtual facility names, and I suspect something akin to
>> $named would be desirable for all of the services that could provide
>> backends for in nsswitch data, i.e. slapd - all scripts that run
>> with their own user account could then depend on this facility. I
>> propose something as suggested in the
>> http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities
>> article, e.g. 'x-nsswitch'.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> Sounds like a good idea.  Please could you file a bug against
> insserv to request it.  Have you discussed this with the LDAP
> maintainers at all?  It might be worth getting their input
> before getting the virtual facility added.
>
> Packages should probably only use Should-Start rather than
> Required-Start, so that this isn't going to cause circular
> dependencies?
Hi everyone.

I've been meaning to discuss this for a very long time, and only really 
got around to putting it out there to debian-users a few days ago. I 
think Roger is quite right that you might have a useful bit of insight 
as to whether this is worth pursuing or not?

- Jamie