[Patches] rebuildextendeddn script

[Matthieu Patou]

Hi andrew,
following our irc talk I changed the script to remove the fixed list of 
attributes which is obviously a left over.

We still need the dn attribute to be specified.

Matthieu.

On 08/26/2009 09:03 PM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 08/26/2009 09:00 PM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>> On 08/26/2009 08:13 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 00:05 +0400, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> Find attached 2 patches for the rebuildextendeddn script.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 0001 is for functions used to get attributes with DN syntax and
>>>> attributes with forward links
>>>>
>>> This looks good, but why don't you then make the provision_backend()
>>> code use your new helper functions?
>>>
>> I suppose that you are talking about get_linked_attributes more
>> specificaly. At the first glance they seems to share code but in fact
>> it not so obvious at the end as my function is returning an array and in
>> the provision backend looks for a string, well this can be solved by
>> joining all the element of the array in one string
>> Also it needs a second string made from backlink attributes, and at
>> first when I tried something the whole thing looked very bad so that's
>> why I didn't make code reused
>>
>> I'll make a patch proposal for reusing the code.
>> Let me know if you find it good.
> So I refactor the patchs:
>
> Patch 0001: I remove the useless split on partitions names
> Patch 0002: No change
> Patch 0003: Patch to mutualize the use of get_linked_attributes, I have
> not easily the opportunity to test it to see I unfortunately introduce
> any kind of regression with this (I think and hope not ...). If someone
> can let me know.
>