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

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On 06.07.2011 17:26, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I believe that nss-pam-ldapd uses a different configuration file than
> nss_ldap, I think I'd rather use the existence of that to determine what
> is being used. Calling out to rpm seems heavy-weight.
Ok, I'll rework it.

Do we have other cases where it is *not* enough to have check on the 
configuration files rather than package itself? For example, for cases 
where we would enforce installation of a required package to satisfy 
dependencies (like it was discussed for PackageKit on #freeipa)?
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy