On 23.11.2016 13:53, Lukas Slebodnik wrote: > On (22/11/16 11:25), 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. >> > Maintaing is not enough. It would be also good to test it. > > And maybe it might be much simpler to have separate > spec file for client only build. Because too many if conditions > does not improve readability of spec file. But that's up to > others to decide what would be simpler.
The maintenance cost you mention is the only con I can see. I think that if we decide to support it, client-only support should be part of configure machinery. It would enable packagers to simply run ./configure --disable-server && make install and have the client installed. It would make easy to package it for whatever distro. Of course, upstream spec will be a good reference for packaging but IMHO we should keep separated build & install matters from packaging. -- Petr^2 Spacek -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-devel mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Contribute to FreeIPA: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Contribute/Code
