[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0052] Create server-dns sub-package

[Jan Cholasta]

Dne 14.7.2015 v 14:33 Petr Spacek napsal(a):
> On 2.7.2015 09:56, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> On 2.7.2015 09:36, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>> On Thu, 02 Jul 2015, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>>>>>>> Can this be done without adding server-core?
>>>>>>> I'm not aware of such method (except of adding all DNS dependencies as
>>>>>>> Requires straight into freeipa-server package).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Because it's not server core,
>>>>>>>> it's the whole thing! Or maybe just rename it to server-common?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm fine with 'common'. Ticket 4058 calls for sub-package for CA too
>>>>>>> so my
>>>>>>> idea was to create 'core' package which will be gradually reduced
>>>>>>> more and more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, I don't like the fact that in order to install IPA server
>>>>>> without DNS you have to install freeipa-server-core instead of just
>>>>>> freeipa-server. Fedora packaging guidelines [1] state that the
>>>>>> metapackage should be named freeipa-server-compat, so I guess renaming
>>>>>> freeipa-server to freeipa-server-compat and freeipa-server-core to
>>>>>> freeipa-server is good enough.
>>>>> I think you are misunderstanding what the guidelines say. -compat
>>>>> subpackage is something that only contains Requires: and Obsoletes:, to
>>>>> help to pull the right packages. It is not supposed to be a
>>>>> full-featured package with content.
>>>>
>>>> With Petr's patch, freeipa-server is exactly that - a metapackage with
>>>> requires and obsoletes only - hence my suggestion to rename it according to
>>>> the guidelines.
>>> That's not good.
>>>
>>>>> I think we are good enough with freeipa-server-dns. We have the same
>>>>> situation with freeipa-server-trust-ad -- it is not required by the main
>>>>> package and pulls in Samba-related bits. We also don't have any -compat
>>>>> or metapackage for it.
>>>>
>>>> freeipa-server-dns is fine, what is IMO not fine is that it *is* required by
>>>> the main freeipa-server package, *unlike* freeipa-server-trust-ad.
>>>>
>>>> We don't have a compat metapackage for freeipa-server-trust-ad, because
>>>> there are no upgrade issues with it, which is what Petr is trying to solve
>>>> with his patch.
>>> So, the issue is that for installed bind+bind-dyndb-ldap combination we
>>> need to switch to bind-pkcs11+bind-dyndb-ldap. Maybe instead of
>>> modifying main freeipa package we could modify bind-dyndb-ldap package
>>> to require bind-pkcs11 and corresponding bits of freeipa packages?
>>
>> Unfortunately, no.
>> - bind-dyndb-ldap itself is used & supported even without FreeIPA.
>> - bind-pkcs11 depends on properly configured SoftHSM (or other PKCS#11 provider)
>> => upgrade could break non-FreeIPA installations.
>>
>> I'm attempting to rework the patch now, stay tuned.
>
> Apparently this thread was abandoned during my PTO so I'm sending new patch
> here. It includes the -compat package and works with YUM and DNF.

I don't like that freeipa-server got renamed to freeipa-server-core, but 
I won't push against it if Alexander and others (CCing Simo) are OK with it.

-- 
Jan Cholasta