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

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>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.
Right.

>Reasoning is that currently F24 has 4.3.x. F25 will most likely have
>4.4.x because 4.5 is still in planning.
Sounds good to me. FleetCommander (which is one of drivers behind the
patches) is targeting F25 as well.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy