Re: New OpenLDAP 2.1 preview
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 23:00, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > One feature I would like to see is the option to have it not insist on
> > creating a new directory. Sometimes I install slapd before I have an
> > ldif file handy...
>
> Excuse me, but normally I would expect an admin who installs slapd to
> want to create a directory. I don't think we should change that aspect
> of the postinst.
Why not give the admin a choice? When I want to do things that your debconf
scripts can't possibly handle (such as having three instances of the ldap
server on the same machine) then it makes sense to have the postinst script
just do nothing and leave it all to me.
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