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

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>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.
Can we get the patch reviewed?
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/ Alexander Bokovoy