Debian Bug report logs - #315297
ITP: fedora-directory-server -- An LDAP server designed to manage large directories of users and resources

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Lovett <ryan@stat.Berkeley.EDU>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RFP: fedora-directory-server -- An LDAP server designed to manage large directories of users and resources

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:35:29 -0700

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : fedora-directory-server
  Version         : CVS
  Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
* URL             : http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page
* License         : http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Licensing
  Description     : An LDAP server designed to manage large directories of users and resources

The Fedora Directory Server is a robust, scalable open-source server
designed to manage large directories of users and resources. It is based
on an open-systems server protocol called the Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP).

-

Seo Sanghyeon <tinuviel sparcs kaist ac kr> made some progress building
from source on his sid box:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-devel/2005-June/msg00006.html

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Message #10 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Cc: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:43:14 -0700

Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> writes:

>> Is somebody working on porting/packaging FDS to Debian?

> http://bugs.debian.org/315297

Bad package description.  It tells me something I don't care about (namely
the acronym expansion of LDAP) and none of the things I do care about (why
would I want this package rather than some other directory server).

> As far as I can tell, there is no-one packaging it yet, feel free to
> contribute, I imagine that it would be good to have this in debian.

Out of curiousity, why?  I can't think of any reason to run FDS when we
already have OpenLDAP, having had the experience of dealing with FDS's
technological predecessor.  Is it just the multi-master replication that
people are interested in?

(Whatever the answer is, assuming there is some compelling feature not
found in OpenLDAP, it should go into the package description.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Message #13 received at 315297-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>

To: Maykel Moya <moya@infomed.sld.cu>, 315297-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:10:56 +0800

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Hi,

> > > Is somebody working on porting/packaging FDS to Debian?
> 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/315297
> 
> Bad package description.  It tells me something I don't care about (namely
> the acronym expansion of LDAP) and none of the things I do care about (why
> would I want this package rather than some other directory server).

As with many RFPs, it seems to have just been ripped from upstream.

> > As far as I can tell, there is no-one packaging it yet, feel free to
> > contribute, I imagine that it would be good to have this in debian.
> 
> Out of curiousity, why?  I can't think of any reason to run FDS when we
> already have OpenLDAP, having had the experience of dealing with FDS's
> technological predecessor.  Is it just the multi-master replication that
> people are interested in?

Comparison:
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/FAQ#How_is_Fedora_Directory_Server_different_from_OpenLDAP.3F
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Features
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/645.html
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/649.html

I guess that would be a question for Maykel Moya and Ryan Lovett :)
What is your reason for preferring FDS over OpenLDAP?

Other reason is the marketing buzz surrounding FDS - "debian doesn't
have the oh-so-great and recently freed FDS, oh well, looks like we use
fedora". Also, see the last paragraph of this:

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/22/1543207&from=rss

> (Whatever the answer is, assuming there is some compelling feature not
> found in OpenLDAP, it should go into the package description.)

Indeed.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Paul+Wise&comaint=yes

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Message #18 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>

To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

Cc: 315297@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:45:45 +0200

Op zo, 07-08-2005 te 09:43 -0700, schreef Russ Allbery:
> Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> writes:
> 
> >> Is somebody working on porting/packaging FDS to Debian?
> 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/315297
> 
> Bad package description.  It tells me something I don't care about (namely
> the acronym expansion of LDAP) and none of the things I do care about (why
> would I want this package rather than some other directory server).
> 
> > As far as I can tell, there is no-one packaging it yet, feel free to
> > contribute, I imagine that it would be good to have this in debian.
> 
> Out of curiousity, why?  I can't think of any reason to run FDS when we
> already have OpenLDAP, having had the experience of dealing with FDS's
> technological predecessor.

Having had experience dealing with OpenLDAP, I'd be happy to have
just /anything/ else.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with having multiple
implementations of the same thing -- on the contrary. We have multiple
implementations of DNS-servers, MTA's, MUA's, database servers,
browsers, user environments, and whatnot. Why not multiple LDAP servers?

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pavement is precisely one bananosecond

Message #23 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ruben Puettmann <ruben@puettmann.net>

To: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:42:08 +0200

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Something new here? There is a little piece of documentation in the wiki. 
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:DebianUbuntu

I personly would like to see the feodora directory server in Debian. 


            Ruben


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Message #32 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>

To: Sven Herzberg <herzi@gnome-de.org>

Cc: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fedora-directory-server Debian packages

Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:00:29 +0100

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Hello Sven,

there is an ITP for fedora-directory-server from you.
Any news on the packages?

Because its big like OpenLDAP maybe packaging could be done on
http://alioth.debian.org/ with an svn repository?

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org

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Message #37 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Herzberg <herzi@gnome-de.org>

To: Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>, 315297@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#315297: fedora-directory-server Debian packages

Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:02:45 +0100

Am Freitag, den 03.11.2006, 16:00 +0100 schrieb Noèl Köthe:
> there is an ITP for fedora-directory-server from you.
> Any news on the packages?

Not yet.

> Because its big like OpenLDAP maybe packaging could be done on
> http://alioth.debian.org/ with an svn repository?

Good Idea. I just registered it, should be available soon.

Regards,
  Sven

Message #42 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Daniel E. Markle" <syntax@ashtech.net>

To: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fedora Directory Server Sorts

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:46:50 -0500

Fedora Directory Server provides server-side sorting.  The client for  
an OpenLDAP server has to download all entries and sort them client- 
side.  This can be a show-stopping issue in many situations,  
including large address books and medium to large enterprise  
deployments.

Message #47 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org>

To: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Sven Herzberg <herzi@gnome-de.org>

Subject: ITP: fedora-directory-server

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:30:39 +0200

Hi!

Any update on the ITP yet?

yours Martin
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Message #52 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Mitchell <ajmitch@debian.org>

To: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org>, Sven Herzberg <herzi@gnome-de.org>

Subject: ITP: fedora-directory-server

Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:30:34 +1200

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Yep, after talking with Sven I started packaging FDS a little while ago
& have a basic package thrown together. An alioth team has been created
which we're both in, and I'll commit what I have, and we'll hopefully
proceed from there.

Cheers,
Andrew

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Message #57 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Masato Taruishi" <taru0216@gmail.com>

To: 315297@bugs.debian.org

Cc: "Martin Wuertele" <maxx@debian.org>, "Sven Herzberg" <herzi@gnome-de.org>

Subject: ITP: fedora-directory-server

Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:37:28 +0900

Hi,

> Yep, after talking with Sven I started packaging FDS a little while ago
> & have a basic package thrown together. An alioth team has been created
> which we're both in, and I'll commit what I have, and we'll hopefully
> proceed from there.

Is there any update for this? I've worked for this, too and I experimentally
built a debian package of ldapserver by using cdbs.

Thanks

Message #62 received at 315297@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@gmail.com>

To: "315297@bugs.debian.org" <315297@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: fedora-ds

Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:15:31 -0500

I am desperately trying to get this to work so I can proxy connections
to Microsoft Active Directory.

No joy at all with OpenLDAP -- while Fedora DS supports AD out-of-the-box.

OpenLDAP community won't specifically help me connect to AD since
OpenLDAP is not designed to do that.  I only get answers to questions
about the errors I receive and help in figuring out the overlays.

I've got a deadline and I've spent two weeks beating on OpenLDAP and
now wasted a day trying to get Fedora DS working.

I visited the Alioth site and there are no files released yet.

-Jason

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