[PATCHS] allow samba to replicate modificated schema properly both on initial join and on incremental changes

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 10:39 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> > As you know, what I've been wanting to do here is unify the vampire and
> > ongoing schema handling, so we don't have this crazy duplication.
> > 
> > I'm very cautious about your code to try and update the schema, as I've
> > found that quite difficult to get right, but if you have cracked the
> > code here, I would like to try and slot that into the code I had in my
> > fix-drs-testing branches. 
> > 
> > I'm dubious about the idea of just mixing the provision-provided schema
> > and the remote one, but I will continue to give your patch a careful
> > look, and see if I can find a way to move forward.  It is indeed
> > unacceptable to just halt progress because I think there is a better way
> > that I can't actually get to work. 
> > 
> > Thanks for your effort and continued progress here.
> 
> I worked in this together with Matthieu, first to get it in a state
> where I'm happy with. Then we decided to go further and unify
> unify the looping to get the schema resolved
> in a new function called dsdb_repl_resolve_working_schema().
> 
> Matthieu is currently testing the result.
> 
> Once the test result is fine I'm happy to push this to master and get it
> backported.

This sounds good.  If I can come up with improvements further from this,
I'll re-base them on this work, rather than hold this up thinking I
might be able to do better.

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett

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