From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 10:51:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4052416A407 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kay.abendroth@raxion.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F8443D67 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:51:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kay.abendroth@raxion.net) Received: from [217.85.99.15] (helo=[10.0.0.10]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1GaVUN0vEp-0008VK; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:51:03 +0200 Message-ID: <45375892.4000803@raxion.net> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:50:58 +0200 From: Kay Abendroth User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20061018214042.GB80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <20061018224056.GC80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> In-Reply-To: <20061018224056.GC80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 OpenPGP: id=4CCBF36C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:b74ade515889ad97333045239a316a52 Subject: Re: gconf2 and openldap X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:51:07 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Duane Whitty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:40:42PM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: >> Not sure I understand why gconf would have a dependency on ldap. >> > After reading the gconftools-2 man page, am I understanding > correctly that gconf can use openldap for its schema storage, > thus providing a distributed configuration environment? To be honest I don't know how gconf works and how to configure it. But this what wikipedia.org says: "[...]the default backend is based on XML. At this time, this is the only working backend for GConf, although a LDAP backend existed in embryonic form [...]" > This in a way seems like something I read about for using ldap > as an inventory management system. > > So, noticing firefox uses gconf at runtime, this could mean then > that firefox could ask gconf to get configuration preferences > for the current user from anywhere on the network, using ldap, which would > be useful for diskless clients, for example? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iQEVAwUBRTdYkv6xkxz4DngiAQhRMwgAoHfvjQta//q9TXojLA3r6dJFwIkhUr6T DfUicwmYzPq0PhJNunNDGvs5q8QBViMPsBRhmwBkyr4jiOKCc2BWrczD2XYHWio7 ywjkAvq/0xzzqrqVvIntW81+sGElyyXzgEY9PQ6AlmXfAQPC0VceJhvU2QXlJ3m3 UALOdY0gL3/pyUpFFXkQXcnESTKZdjgIsSrECXYg1fksBJTF1Ge+GGxwiYqiAbXz O51xxbh6Anv/HyLlzxselMw2/+MFriBU+32ZTOVQCPs7eRh8o7HIlZVVhNEPkbQh 9kC9f1mC0xNrE2R2o42dk0xN6PI7XP0cAT+9ym0y4dOZ22RM4X7Z9g== =1Se0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----