Re: What to do with test058?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how we should go forward with test058-syncrepl-asymmetric. If I
> understand the test (and the comments in syncrepl.c) correctly the setup
> it is testing is unsupported in slapd, am I right? (Which is the reason
> why test failures are ignored currently, I guess)
>
> On the provider the syncprov overlay is setup for the glued database and
> the consumer's syncrepl clients (also glued) are configured on the
> individual child databases. Additionally the consumers have configure the
> the syncprov overlay also of the topmost database. AFAICS all of the
> failures that test058 reports are related to this unsupported config.
>
> Is anybody planning to work on adding support for such a setup. Or should
> we just rework the test to a supported scenario (or even remove it
> completely)?

No plans, but it's probably worth thinking about supporting it. (Patches 
welcome.) Gluing different types of contexts together seems to be a pretty 
important capability anyway, and in general our support for multiple contexts 
is weak. (E.g., ITS#6942.)

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