[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0214] Support schema files for external plugins

[Petr Vobornik]

On 08/08/2016 12:26 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Attached patch is what is needed to allow external plugins for FreeIPA
>> framework to be functional if they need to extend a schema.
>>
>> The idea is that we would have a separate directory as
>> /usr/share/ipa/schema.d and will allow to use schema (*.ldif) files from
>> it and its subdirectories during install and upgrade stages.
>>
>> Without the patch only selected schema files from /usr/share/ipa are
>> used during install and upgrade. This leads to a failure to install IPA
>> server (or upgrade it) if a new plugin is added. If plugin defines
>> managed permissions, upgrade tool will generate ACIs which will fail to
>> be inserted into LDAP store due to references to missing attributes and
>> object classes.
>>
>> The patch adds a directory to be installed and a helper utility that
>> loads files from the directory and adds them to the list of schema files
>> used during update of dsinstance and upgrade of the server.
>>
>> With this patch I'm successfully managed to make FleetCommander
>> integration plugin completely independent of FreeIPA.
> Patch attached now. ;)
> 

I'll assume that we want to target 4.4.x therefore it can be pushed to
master, right? I.e. no need for creating ipa-4-4 branch atm.

Reasoning is that currently F24 has 4.3.x. F25 will most likely have
4.4.x because 4.5 is still in planning.

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Petr Vobornik