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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Coincidentally, I ran into the Debian patches tonight and was about to
mention it here.

We could patch to keep the db in the current location and have the
socket in /run. Patching would be trivial and low-maintenance. That's
probably the best solution unless someone objects.   Debian also have
a patch to have an errors log file in /var/log instead of /var, I'll
apply it regardless.

Eric