On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 19:31, Howard Chu wrote: > >> As a complete aside, you might consider using something like the > >> addpartial > >> overlay in ITS#3593 > >> http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Contrib?id=3593 > >> instead of sort/diff. Just ldapadd everything and let the overlay figure > >> out the changes. That's essentially what the syncrepl consumer does with > >> the entries it receives from the provider. > > > > If you happen to be interested in this overlay, feel free to contact me > > about > > it. I have never versions that aren't available at that URL (that ensure > > syncrepl works, among other things). > > Oh good =D I have a lot of different responses for pieces of Howard's > message, but this makes it easy to split off this conversation. ;D For > one thing, I think that functionality is awesome! And at some level I > would love to be able to make use of it! The only reason I don't think I > would end up using it right now is that I do a lot of sanity checks on > what I have. Basically I create the ldifdiff output, parse it and see how > many mods, deletes, adds, etc are being done, and cap the max number that > can be performed without someone looking over what's going on first. So > in effect, I'm already doing the work to do the diffs, might as well use > what I have. That said, I adore the concept and is there any chance it'll > ever end up in openldap's dist? > > Oh also, I would actually love to 'play with it' if you wouldn't mind > hooking me up with a copy. =)
An updated version of addpartial is available at http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Contrib?id=3593. Enjoy playing with it. This overlay has served us well since we put it in production in 2004. dave
