[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 4 (1) ipa-client-install complains about non-existing nss_ldap

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 14:18 +0200, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> On 1.7.2011 14:00, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 01.07.2011 14:54, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> >> On 1.7.2011 11:44, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> >>> New version: forgot to import package_installed_name from ipautil.
> >>> Previous version can be ignored.
> >>>
> >>
> >> ipa-client-install should be usable on non-RH platforms (see
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1374), so you shouldn't use
> >> /bin/rpm, as that's platform-specific. Wouldn't just rephrasing the
> >> warning message (as suggested in the ticket) be sufficient?
> > If you want to support non-rpm-based platforms, you'll need to do much
> > greater work than not depend on rpm. For example, /sbin/service and
> > chkconfig might not be there.
> 
> I'm not sure adding even more complexity is helpful, especially when 
> it's used just to print a warning message. But I'd like a second opinion 
> on this.

I think it is time we start renaming ipautil.py to ipautil-rh.py and do
ourselves, or invite someone to write ipautil-debian.py, then have code
that loads the right module at runtime.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York