[Mageia-dev] Packagers meeting tonight (26/03/3013, 20h UTC)

Tue Mar 26 16:04:17 CET 2013

+Le 26/03/2013 15:30, David Walser a écrit :
+>> AFAUI, the nss_ldap+pam_ldap should be replced by the nss-pam-ldapd+sssd
+>> combo no? If so, then a further couple of tweaks are needed in drakauth
+>> methinks.
+>
+> I thought you could use one or the other (nss-pam-ldapd/sssd)?
+Exactly. And sssd is much more than just nss-pam-ldapd, it also deals 
+with nss resources caching (as nscd), credentials caching (as 
+pam_ccreds), and multiple user account databases.
+
+> Also, something should really obsolete the nss_ldap/pam_ldap packages so they
+> get replaced with something else that works for people that already have them
+> installed.  If that's done, pam_ldap will be automatically removed from the
+> mirrors anyway.  Probably nss-pam-ldapd is the right place to do this.
+Just installing nss-pam-ldapd won't make it works automagically, so the 
+added value of making it obsoleting pam_ldap and nss_ldap is very 
+discussable, as it will turn something working (with obsolete software) 
+unto something non-working.
+
+Also, recurrent argument as 'we should obsoletes X so as to remove it 
+from mirror' is still a non-sense. Removing content on the mirror is an 
+internal administrative issue.
+
+The whole issue should rather be documented in release notes, so as to 
+have admins handle the upgrade explicitely, rather than trying to 
+adresse it automagically.
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #391:
+
+We already sent around a notice about that.
+