[389-users] Re: 389-DS Cockpit

[Mark Reynolds]

On 2/10/23 8:47 AM, Rosario Esposito wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I read from https://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/download.html
>  "cockpit-389-ds is not distributed in AppStream."
>
>  I just downloaded the current 389-ds-base source rpm from Appstream:
>  389-ds-base-2.1.3-4.el9_1.src.rpm
>
>  Inside the src rpm there's a 389-ds-base.spec containing the following line:
>  %global use_cockpit 0
>
>  If I just modify it to:
>  %global use_cockpit 1
>
>  ...and rebuild the source rpm, then I get the rpm: cockpit-389-ds-2.1.3-4.el9.noarch.rpm
>
>  Is that safe to use ? 
Absolutely
>  What is the reason for cockpit-389-ds not being directly distributed
> in Appstream repo ? 
Because downstream it is for the layered product (RHDS). 
It's not a 
part of RHEL (IDM) so it's filtered out.
>  I'm asking this because I'd like to install the same version
> of 389-ds currently used by RHDS12 (2.1.3) on a Rocky Linux 9 machine.
>  If I switch to "copr" repository then I get 389-ds version 2.2.x which seems to
> be too new. 
We also have 2.3.x :-)   389-ds-base-2.2 is what we are using for RHDS 
12.2 on RHEL 9.2.  I would not say 2.2 is "too" new or risky.  Now
"2.3" 
is, but not 2.2.

HTH,

Mark

>  Thanks.
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