[gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

[gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm in the midst of an avalanche of re-emerging packages, occasioned in part by
an update to the LDAP libraries.  I don't completely understand that because I
never turned on the LDAP USE-flag, but maybe some things just need it.

However, I'm annoyed that apache would not build because, it said,
dev-libs/apr-util
did not have LDAP support.  DUH!  Nothing new here.  I hadn't changed my mind
about LDAP, so why all of a sudden apache is getting touchy about LDAP?

I explicitly set apache to -ldap in packages.use, and it compiled okay.  B ut
I'm starting to wonder if that was sensible.  I only vaguely understand that
LDAP has to do with "directory" searches, but I don't know why I should care
about that in general, or about it in reference to apache.

So what do I need to know about this?

++ kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I explicitly set apache to -ldap in packages.use, and it compiled okay. 
> B ut
> I'm starting to wonder if that was sensible.  I only vaguely understand
> that
> LDAP has to do with "directory" searches, but I don't know why I should
> care
> about that in general, or about it in reference to apache.

LDAP is a special type of database that is like a tree, full of nodes, branchs and properties with
values. it USUALLY used to store user account information to be shared among different servers, or
to store email account definitions.

if you are NOT using openldap, then it's probably safe to put -ldap in your global USE flag in
/etc/make.conf

But I don't know your system, so.... analyze it. check out www.openldap.org and read about it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

[Daniel Iliev]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm in the midst of an avalanche of re-emerging packages, occasioned
> in part by
> an update to the LDAP libraries.  I don't completely understand that
> because I
> never turned on the LDAP USE-flag, but maybe some things just need it.
>
> However, I'm annoyed that apache would not build because, it said,
> dev-libs/apr-util
> did not have LDAP support.  DUH!  Nothing new here.  I hadn't changed
> my mind
> about LDAP, so why all of a sudden apache is getting touchy about LDAP?
>
> I explicitly set apache to -ldap in packages.use, and it compiled
> okay.  B ut
> I'm starting to wonder if that was sensible.  I only vaguely
> understand that
> LDAP has to do with "directory" searches, but I don't know why I
> should care
> about that in general, or about it in reference to apache.
>
> So what do I need to know about this?
>
> ++ kevin
>
Obviously you don't use LDAP, so I could try this:
emerge gentoolkit (if you haven't done this)
euse -D ldap
emerge -DuNav world

If you come again to a package which doesn't compile you can just skip
it with:
emerge --resume --skipfirst

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Daniel


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