[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#725153: [Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#725153: freeipa-server backport to Jessie?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 17.04.2015 21:54, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 07:45:24AM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> Actually, I pushed a hacked up libldap to my openldap git on alioth
>> yesterday, but forgot to update this bug, oops
>>
>> git://git.debian.org/git/users/tjaalton/openldap.git
>>
>> it doesn't build anything other than libldap & ldap-utils, and includes
>> the applicable Fedora patches (yes three of them were upstream already)
>> minus autoconf one which gave me some pain. If it's ok for you, we could
>> have a branch on the official pkg repo so folks that need to build their
>> own packages could use that as the base.
> 
> Something like a "moznss" branch parallel to master? I don't have any
> problem with that.

Ok, I'll push something at some point.

> FWIW, the autoconf patch worked for me once I added Build-Depends:
> pkg-config.

ha, stupid me then.. the error message I got wasn't too obvious

>> That might still leave plain 389-ds-base multimaster replication in the
>> dust though, but I'm not interested in that personally.. Building a
>> second libldap against moznss might be possible, but looks icky..
> 
> Icky indeed. Based on what you wrote above, sounds like that probably
> won't be worth the effort, if it won't be needed in future.
> 
> So as I understand it: this bug is basically wontfix in the official
> package at this point; you're (already?) providing an unofficial
> nss-libldap that freeipa users can drop in to replace the
> gnutls-libldap; and nothing has to be rebuilt to take advantage of that.
> Do I have that right?

Well, my quick testing shows that a simple library swap isn't enough,
but 389 probably needs a rebuild against the new lib. Or replication
fails because of something unrelated to this.. don't have much time to
test anything in the next couple of weeks.


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