Re: Production use of OpenLDAP

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Kristian Köhntopp wrote:
> 
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > Right now it supports user entries for ~500 developers, including account
> > info, PGP and SSH RSA keys. The archive directory will contain entries
> > for some 4000 seperate software packages from some 3000 seperate sources,
> > with seperate entries for each version and each architecture supported (in
> > the range of 8 entries for each package right now).
> 
> How do you maintain the integrity of your data,
> that is, how do you check that references between
> different objects are kept intact and up-to-date,
> that attributes get only valid values and the like?

The developers' directory is referenced against the main PGP keyring. The
packages' directory will be referenced against the information found right
in the packages (ie. the physical archive). Most of the programming is
done via perl-ldap and python-ldap.

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