[Freeipa-devel] client-only FreeIPA build

[Jan Cholasta]

On 22.11.2016 18:10, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> On 11/22/2016 05:25 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>>> On (22/11/16 16:29), Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>> On 22.11.2016 16:27, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22.11.2016 16:04, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the recent changes with regard to
>>>>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Integration_Improvements
>>>>>> beg a question whether we should invest into supporting client-only builds in
>>>>>> FreeIPA build system.
>>
>> Note that the Integration efforts don't really apply. The client-only
>> install is for doing client enrollment and integration can mean lots of
>> things.
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now, FreeIPA can be built on all architectures we care about so there is
>>>>>> no incentive to invest into client-only build - this applies to binary/RPM
>>>>>> builds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Client-only build lowers the barrier for porting IPA to new platforms (porting
>>>>> only client code is *much* easier than porting the whole thing), so I would
>>>>> very much prefer if we kept it.
>>>>
>>>> Understood.
>>>>
>>> Agree about portability
>>>
>>> But upstream spec file needn't have such relicts.
>>> The upstream spec file is pure fedora specific.
>>
>> The upstream spec is what is used to document and verify that the
>> client-only build actually works.
>>
>> I also think it is a worthy goal to maintain.
>>
>>>> Wondering out loud: What prevents the "porter" from doing full build and then
>>>> packaging only client bits? Yes, he has to install come of the dependencies
>>>> for the build to pass but still, it is way easier than actually making server
>>>> fully functional.
>>
>> It is not an insignificant amount of dependencies to build all of IPA.
>>
>>>> Petr, are you going to allocate time for this soonish or should I open a
>>>> ticket and forget about it for now?
>>
>> IMHO this should be covered under the build refactoring to avoid
>> regressions.

+1

>>
>> rob
>>
>
> I think we should not implement it. I see no need. Fedora, Debian, RHEL
> all work with server build. Difference between arches is not issue as well.

This assumes that these are the only ports out there, which I know for 
fact they are not [1].

>
> If somebody would want it for porting IPA on other distro then fine. But
> at that stage there will be more stuff to figure out so writing the
> patch can wait for that eventuality.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freeipa-client/

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Jan Cholasta