[Freeipa-devel] Design document: Integration Improvements

[Jan Cholasta]

On 21.11.2016 15:07, Christian Heimes wrote:
> On 2016-11-21 14:44, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>> 3.3 ipaplatform auto-configuration
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if guessing platform from ID_LIKE is really a good idea. It
>>>> might work fine for centos -> rhel, but in general we can't really
>>>> assume it will always work, as the platforms listed in ID_LIKE might not
>>>> be similar enough to the one in ID. I would rather add an ipaplatform
>>>> subpackage for every supported platform (including CentOS) than depend
>>>> on error-prone guesswork.
>>>
>>> Can you show me a real-world example for your statement that ID_LIKE is
>>> error-prone?
>>>
>>> Your proposal doesn't scale. There are tons of Debian spins with their
>>> own ID. For example my Raspberry Pi has ID=raspbian and ID_LIKE=debian.
>>> Do you want to maintain an exhaustive list of all Debian and Ubuntu
>>> variants?
>>
>> Can we agree that it would be much better to get rid of platform depedency in
>> client libraries and be done with this philosophical debate?

+1

>
> Yes, that would be my preferable solution, too. But it's a lot of work
> and I don't have any spare time to work on a redesign of ipaplatform /
> ipalib. Who is going to do it?
>
> Christian

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Jan Cholasta