[Mageia-dev] nss-ldap missing ?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:59 AM, JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> After my usual ckeck for un-rebuilt packages, I have found this:
>
> bran:~# rpm -qa --nosignature --qf "%{n}-%{v}-%{r}\n" | grep mga1 | sort
> libatlas3-sse2-3.8.3-7.mga1
> libopencore-amr0-0.1.2-3.mga1
> nss_ldap-265-3.mga1
>
> bran:~# rpm -ql nss_ldap
> /etc/ldap.conf
> /etc/ldap.secret
> /lib/libnss_ldap-2.12.1.so
> /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2
> ...
>
> Is nss_ldap in the non-building package list, or is it deprecated and
> there is now another method to use ldap for authentication ?

It was broken (new automake + undefined reference to `__libc_lock_*)
and when investigating I found that it is dead and removed from
several distros with suggestions to use nss-pam-ldapd (Fedora commit
removing it also mentions sssd)