Am 01.04.2014 19:30, schrieb Jelmer Vernooij: > At the moment, the process for setting up OpenChange on a new machine > is fairly involved. It requires building and installing the software, > and then various provisioning steps: > > 1) Provisioning Samba > 2) Provisioning the OpenChange integration in Samba/AD (schemas, etc) > 3) Editing smb.conf to add the various OpenChange services > 4) Provisioning the OpenChange database > 5) Possibly tweaking the ocsmanager settings, and setting up proxies > for ocsmanager/tcp_proxy > > I'm working on two changes that should help simplify this process, > combining steps 1 through 4: > > loadparm_context creation hooks > =============================== > > loadparm_init() creates a loadparm context and then sets a whole heap > of defaults. These defaults can then be overwritten when a smb.conf > file is loaded that has explicit settings. > > I'd like to allow modules to register a hook that gets run at the end > of this function, so they can tweak the default values in lp_ctx. > OpenChange could use this to add its own services to the "server > services" list, something that currently requires manual editing of > smb.conf by the user.
Sounds ok. > Users will still be able to disable openchange by explicitly setting a > 'server services' line, just as they are able to set it at the moment. > > hooks for setting up additional schemas in 'samba-tool domain provision' > ======================================================================== > > It should be possible to extend the functionality of the provisioning > code in Samba. In particular I'm thinking of the ability to setup more > schemas. > > This can be done by allowing a Python file that provides a certain > interface to be dropped in a magic directory somewhere. OpenChange can > then install such a file. How would this work with upgrades of existing installations? metze
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