David Timber wrote:
> Quanah, I think I've pissed you off. I apologise. Well, if you don't see the 
> problem, then that's fine. No need to get pissed off. You don't have to reply.
> That's fine. Just chill, man. It's not good for you. I read the whole admin 
> guide and man pages. I'm not complaining just because out of ignorance. That 
> kind of
> assumption is just a personal attack, not very nice of you(thf, I started it. 
> Sorry). I'm making this point because I care about OpenLDAP and I want it to 
> be
> better. I don't understand why we have to get emotional here.
> 
> 
> I know how to import schemas with cn=config. That was never a question.

No. You've demonstrated that you don't understand at all.

> I was just complaining because it's a tedious process and I believe that it 
> shouldn't be
> like this.

It isn't. You've made more than one factual error describing its requirements.

> The whole cn=config matter was not even my question in the first place. My 
> concern was that I'm not happy with how cn=config handles schemas and I
> want to stick with "deprecated" slapd.conf. slaptest has to be used to 
> convert schema to ldif, which is in no way intuitive and convenient.
> 
> On 5/4/22 12:27, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> And you're literally missing the point that a ".schema" file is a syntax 
>> specific to slapd.conf and a ".ldif" file is a syntax specific to cn=config. 
>>  Just as
>> you cannot load a ".schema" file into cn=config, you cannot load a ".ldif" 
>> file into slapd.conf.  The two things are *equivalent* representations for 
>> their
>> respective configuration types.  In the future, expect only ".ldif" files to 
>> get shipped once we finalize deprecating slapd.conf.
> 
> The format of schema is defined in RFC 4512. It's universal. OpenLDAP has no 
> right to be difficult in incorporating schemas. Forcing users to convert it 
> to ldif
> to just fit into the OpenLDAP specific cn=config format is not just fair, 
> especially for the sake of compatibility. I'd have been happy if I could just 
> use
> include: attribute to load .schema.
> 
> 
> To anyone else, just forget everything I said. I just wanted to know when the 
> slapd.conf support will be dropped. THAT was my question.
> 
> And, don't get me wrong. cn=config is a great idea!
> 
> 


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  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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