RedHat 8.0 RPMS -- what they foretell

[Michael Ströder]

Joe Little wrote:
> I'll downloaded the isos for limbo, the first RedHat 8.0 beta release.
> 
> Its a true .0 release, in that a lot of major changes are in the works. 
> Primarily, they have migrated their whole installation system from 
> python 1.5.x to 2.2.x. Along with this, they have adopted OpenLDAP 
> 2.1.2, and their compat libs are only for OpenLDAP 1.2.13. This means 
> that at least for this vendor, a CVS release of python-ldap will be the 
> bare minimum requirement. My guess is that 8.0 may be an August release, 
> or perhaps later. Regardless, the list will get more questions about 
> OpenLDAP 2.1.x in the future.

Now how about testing the current CVS instead of counting version 
numbers? Did you read about my problems with OpenLDAP 2.1.x libs? 
I filed two bug reports to OpenLDAP's ITS related to problems I 
found when working on python-ldap during the last days.

So far I had no feedback from list members when requesting tests 
during the last days! :-(

Red Hat is famous for packaging premature software into RPMs such 
causing a 1st-level support nightmare on mailing lists which they 
simply don't have to pay (e.g. the gcc catastrophy).

Sorry, Red Hat nor any other Linux distributors' packaging 
decisions will influence my schedule.

Joe, if you want to push things forward then there are several 
things to dig into:

1. Solve problems with NON-ASCII chars in DN when using OpenLDAP 
2.1.x libs.

2. Find huge memory leaks reported to the list.

3. Dig into thread-safety issues with libldap_r. Despite your 
personal conversation with Luke I have some doubts that this is 
really solved.

4. Test build process with several flavors of OpenLDAP 
(./configure --help to give you an idea).

5. Clean up the nightmare of DEFINE's used.

6. At least test the CVS version!

Not to speak of adding new features...

Ciao, Michael.