On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 05:05:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Davor Ocelic wrote: > > Attached is a patch allowing Debconf to store and read templates > > from a LDAP database. > > Is there any chance of making this work with multilingual templates too? > Is the issue mapping the names into ldap, or storing so much data in > ldap?
The reasons for it not working out of the box (yet) are: 1) Fields like "Choices-zh_CN.GB2312" would currently not be properly saved to LDAP. (Fix: trivial, improve one regex replacement). 2) You can't save say, "Choices-zh_CN.GB2312", to LDAP before that specific attribute is defined and allowed in LDAP server's schema. Current debconf.schema file has 9 attributes. Adding support for all localizations of all fields would mean defining about 250 - 300 new attributes (and the number will probably grow with time). This is not a problem in itself, since internally in LDAP, attributes do not take any space unless you actually fill in a value for them, but browsing LDAP trees with a GUI browser becomes a bit unpleasant when you have to scroll down 250 (mostly empty) attributes for each entry. (There is ability in some ldap clients to hide empty attributes, though.) I do plan to submit a multilingual patch at some later time, when I think it over. In the meantime let's get basic functionality working well. -doc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
