Re: inheritance of matching rules (ITS#868)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

I committed a fix which should resolve this issue.

        Kurt

At 11:32 AM 11/2/00 +0000, m.d.t.evans@qmw.ac.uk wrote:
>Full_Name: Martin Evans
>Version: Recent CVS
>OS: Linux 2.1.x
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (138.37.8.180)
>
>
>Recently, Mark Adamson of CMU kindly contributed his approximate matching
>algorithms to the CVS.
>
>The approximate matching code works for the filter (mail~=xxxx) but not with
>the filter (sn~=xxxx).
>
>The mail attributeType contains a EQUALITY matching rule in its definition:
>
>attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3
>    NAME ( 'mail' 'rfc822Mailbox' )
>    DESC 'RFC1274: RFC822 Mailbox'
>    EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5Match
>    SUBSTR caseIgnoreIA5SubstringsMatch
>    SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26{256} )
>
>Whereas the sn inherits its rule from 'name':
>
>attributetype ( 2.5.4.41 NAME 'name'
>        EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
>        SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
>        SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{32768} )
>
>attributetype ( 2.5.4.4 NAME ( 'sn' 'surname' ) SUP name )
>
>If the sn attributetype is modified to directly reference the rule then the
>approx matching works. I.e. with the undesirable:
>
>attributetype ( 2.5.4.4 NAME ( 'sn' 'surname' )
>         EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
>         SUP name )
> 
>
>This has led Mark and myself to believe that the inheritance is not working
>correctly.
>
>Thought you should know,
>
>Martin.