[arch-dev-public] Moving openldap to core repo

[Jan de Groot]

On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 05:40 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 20:48 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> >> Sure. I just did it in my WIP PKGBUILD to not forget.
> >>
> >> As no-one seems to know about the db moving part, I'm leaning into
> >> keeping  --localstatedir=/var/lib/openldap. I'll wait for a day or two
> >> in case someone wants to pipe in, unless you want me to go forward to
> >> get the new openladp package done for the tcp_wrappers removal.
> >
> > What db-moving part exactly? Doesn't the current package install the
> > database in /var/lib/openldap, and isn't that the logical place for it?
> >
> >
> 
> The current package use the --localstatedir=/var/lib/openldap
> configure option. That does 2 things:
> - it creates a /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data/ directory where the db is stored
> - it creates a /var/lib/openldap/run/ directory where the unix ldapi
> socket will be located
> 
> Although this is a reasonnable location for the db, you said in a
> comment on FS#21051 that /var/lib/openldap/run/ is a weird location
> and that /var/run would be better. If we want to change the location
> of the ldapi socket to /var/run, we'll need to use
> --localstatedir=/var as configure option. However, this will also
> change the expected location of the db to /var/openldap-data/ hence
> the db moving business.
> 
> I guess it all boils down wether the weirdness of having the socket
> /var/lib/openldap/run/ is important enough to worth the hassle of the
> db moving.

What about patching?

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/openldap/2.4.25-1.1/wrong-database-location

We're not the only one facing this problem.