Re: back-config, includes

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> Howard,
>
> the reason I'm not routinely replyin to your messages bout bak-config is
> essentially due to th fact that I couldn't invesigte the code deeply
> enough to have a sufficient insight into the scope of your design.  In
> principle, I find your suggestions completely reasonable (at least, I dont
> have any better ideas ;).
>
> One point is that I don't quite understand yet how much is alredy
> implemented nd how much i yet to come in terms of funtionalities.
At this point it's still pretty limited; I haven't implemented any LDAP 
write operations yet.

If the configdir exists, it will get populated with an LDIF form of the 
slapd.conf. All of the frontend config parameters are now supported, and 
all of the back-bdb/hdb and back-ldif parameters are as well. All 
included schema files are converted to LDIF as described in my previous 
post. If you do a search against cn=config you should see everything.

It is now possible to run slapd using just the configdir instead of the 
slapd.conf file; all of the LDIF is reloaded and produces a runnable 
setup. (You have to change the "#if 0 /* not yet */" line in bconfig.c 
to "#if 1" otherwise it will still look for and parse the slapd.conf file.)

I think the next step will be to implement LDAPadd; it should be safe to 
add just about anything - schema, databases, overlays, include files...

The fact that the backendDB array is realloc'd as new backends are 
opened is a problem, I think this will need to be a linked list instead.

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