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quanah / net-ldapapi

The Net::LDAPapi Perl Module uses the OpenLDAP and Mozilla C api's to directly access and manipulate an LDAP v2 or LDAP v3 server.
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is RPM package available for net-ldapapi in CENTOS/RHEL/ROCKYLinux repo's ? #57

Closed umagmrit closed 1 year ago

quanah commented 1 year ago

Ask RedHat I suppose, or Fedora?

umagmrit commented 1 year ago

@quanah I am not able to find on RedHat/Centos repo's . Could you please share links to download net-ldapapi rpm's ?

quanah commented 1 year ago

This project only provides source. If you need a pre-built RPM, you'll have to build the spec file yourself or ask the appropriate project to create one.

umagmrit commented 1 year ago

@quanah I am from zimbra org. We have a spec file created by you https://github.com/Zimbra/packages/blob/develop/thirdparty/perl-net-ldapapi/zimbra-perl-net-ldapapi/rpm/SPECS/net-ldapapi.spec, but we are planning to get all third-party packages from rhel/centos repositories instead of compiling ourselves all third-party packages.

quanah commented 1 year ago

Congratulations, you've partially discovered why Zimbra builds its own packages. The path you're going down is an exceptionally bad idea for many reasons and is why builds weren't done this way. But I'll leave it to your customers to discover the myriad reasons why it's a catastrophically bad idea when you do this.

umagmrit commented 1 year ago

@quanah small correction to my comment. I want to get all third-party packages from rhel/centos repositories except the packages we are patching like openldap, postfix, nginx, cyrus-sasl, etc... is it bad idea ? if we are not doing any customisation why can't we pull directly from os repo's ?

robert-scheck commented 1 year ago

Ask RedHat I suppose, or Fedora?

I'm a Fedora and Fedora EPEL packager. As of writing, Net::LDAPapi is not packaged for Fedora, and thus also neither part of CentOS Stream nor of RHEL (including RHEL clones like Rocky Linux). Given Red Hat determines the set of packages in CentOS Stream and RHEL (according to their discretion and preferences, and sometimes also according to their customer's preferences), a close way could be to package it for Fedora EPEL, which is however, strictly spoken, a third-party repository not enabled by default in CentOS Stream or RHEL. And keeping an RPM package in Fedora EPEL requires a package maintainer and ongoing maintenance efforts.