[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0001 User Life Cycle: create containers and scoping DS plugins

[Rich Megginson]

On 08/13/2014 08:48 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 09:24 AM, thierry bordaz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch is a first patch related to 'User Life Cycle'
>> (https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3813)
>>
>> It creates 'Stage' and 'Delete' containers and configure DS plugin to
>> scope only 'Active' container or exclude 'Stage'/'Delete'
>
> Hello,
>
> The .ldif files are copied only during initial installation. When 
> upgrading to a version with this patch, changes in .ldif files are not 
> applied.
>
> So all updates need to be in .update files. For example, for DNA 
> plugin configuration you would need something like this in an .update 
> file:
>
> dn: cn=Posix IDs,cn=Distributed Numeric Assignment 
> Plugin,cn=plugins,cn=config
> remove:dnaScope: "$SUFFIX"
> add:dnaScope: "cn=accounts,$SUFFIX"
>
>
> .update files, on the other hand, are applied both on installation and 
> on upgrade. To avoid duplication you can put whole entries in .update 
> and delete them from the .ldif, provided the entries always end up 
> being created in a correct order.
>
>
> Patch submission technicalities:
> Please don't add the "Reviewed by" tag to the commit message, it's 
> added when pushing. The other tags are not used FreeIPA. (What's a 
> "Flag Day"?)

Flag Day is a warning to other developers - "Hey, this change will break 
something in your usual workflow, plan accordingly"

> When you send more patches that depend on each other, either attach 
> them all to one e-mail, or explicitly say what each patch depends on.
>