Re: [PATCH] gnu: openldap: Use gnutls.

[Alex Vong]

Hello,

Jan Synáček <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Alex Vong <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi,
>
>> The following patch does what the title says. The link of the bug
>> <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=7430;page=17> is no
>> longer accessible, so I assume the bug is fixd since I cannot find it on
>> the internet.
>
> The #7430 was fixed in 2013.
>
>> ======================================================================
>> # Download the upstream source and make changes as required for DFSG reasons.
>> # Assumes wget is available, as this is generally only used by the package
>> # maintainers.
>> get-orig-source:
>>         @if [ ! -d "debian/schema" ] ; then \
>>             echo 'Run this from the top directory of the Debian source' >&2; 
>> \
>>             exit 1; \
>>         fi
>>         wget $(URL)/openldap-$(VERSION).tgz
>>         tar xzf openldap-$(VERSION).tgz
>>         rm -r openldap-$(VERSION)/doc/drafts
>>         rm -r openldap-$(VERSION)/doc/rfc
>>         set -e; for schema in debian/schema/*.schema debian/schema/*.ldif ; 
>> do \
>>             file=`basename "$$schema"`; \
>>             rm openldap-$(VERSION)/servers/slapd/schema/$$file; \
>>         done
>>         mv openldap-$(VERSION) openldap-$(VERSION)+dfsg
>>         tar cf openldap_$(VERSION)+dfsg.orig.tar openldap-$(VERSION)+dfsg
>>         rm -r openldap-$(VERSION)+dfsg
>>         gzip -9 openldap_$(VERSION)+dfsg.orig.tar
>> ======================================================================
>
> as a former OpenLDAP maintainer on Fedora and RHEL, I strongly suggest
> you link it against openssl. It's basically the only really supported
> crypto upstream.

OK, first let me introduce '->' to means 'is a dependency of'.

Currently we have the following:
  openldap -> curl -> octave

This means 'openssl -> openldap' cannot happens,
otherwise 'openssl -> octave',
which is a violation of GPLv3+.

I am interested in knowing how Fedora solves this issue.

Thanks,
Alex