[patch] ldb in Samba3

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sat Sep 23 03:46:10 GMT 2006


On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:59:55PM -0700, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> 
> Would you be ok with this:
> 
>   - use group_mapping.ldb for ldb file
> 
>   - check at open for group_mapping.tdb, if it exists, then open, loop
>     converting, calling the ldb add function (via existing fns in
>     mapping_ldb.c), and unlink tdb file

That definately is the way to go (IMHO). We don't
support downgrading rpm's. Nice design - thanks.

> We could go all the way and add a "group mapping backend = tdb/ldb"
> option, but I don't see much point to it. It's certainly easy to do
> (as the code is now abstracted, its easy to add a method structure). 

Nooo - please no ! :-). No more of these :-).

> Finally, should Samba3 build ldbedit, ldbsearch etc? They are easy
> enough to add to the Makefile, but only if they are wanted.

Let's add them to the makefile for our build. Distros can decide if they
want to add them to the rpm's.

Jeremy.


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