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

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2015, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>Dne 1.7.2015 v 15:25 Petr Spacek napsal(a):
>>On 1.7.2015 15:13, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Dne 1.7.2015 v 14:12 Petr Spacek napsal(a):
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>Create server-dns sub-package.
>>>>
>>>>This allows us to automatically pull in package bind-pkcs11
>>>>and thus create upgrade path for on CentOS 7.1 -> 7.2.
>>>>
>>>>IPA previously had no requires on BIND packages and these had to be
>>>>installed manually before first ipa-dns-install run.
>>>>We need to pull additional bind-pkcs11 package during RPM upgrade
>>>>so ipa-dns-install cannot help with this.
>>>>
>>>>https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4058
>>>
>>>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.

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.


>Anyway, if we add DNS subpackage, we should add subpackages for the 
>other optional components (CA, KRA) as well, to at least be 
>self-consistent.
Yes, in the cases where they are really optional. For example, CA is
installed by default, so claiming it is optional would require us to
change the default to always install without CA or this split wouldn't
have much sense. Perhaps, splitting out CA subpackage is fine for future
when we would be OK to default to not installing CA but until that it is
just a complication.


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/ Alexander Bokovoy