Re: [HEADS UP]: OpenLDAP+nss_ldap+nss_modules separated patch and more (SoC)

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:41:24 -0500
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:09:17PM +0800, ?????? (LI Xin) wrote:
> ??? 2006-08-23?????? 13:40 +0200???Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav?????????
> [...]
> > > > Maybe we can help him to extract some necessary routines out of the lber
> > > > and ldap libraries, and make it an internal library (say, put into the
> > > > nss module rather than installing a separate .so file)?
> > > May be. Moreover, this module (and any nss module) shall export only symbols
> > > needed by nss interface, not polluting the global namespace of process.
> > 
> > Please stop the madness.  The simplest solution is to import OpenLDAP
> > unmodified, and if someone is unhappy with the base system's libldap,
> > they can build world WITHOUT_OPENLDAP.
> 
> I think I can live with this.  The only (slight) problem remains is that
> we should provide either a mechanism to remove installed base OpenLDAP
> libraries, or a sysinstall(8) option.

Set WITHOUT_OPENLDAP and use the delete-old and delete-old-libs targets
in src/Makefile.  As long as WITHOUT_OPENLDAP is implemented correctly
this will work.

-- Brooks

Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 12:41:44 UTC

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