Brian LaMere wrote: > Regarding superior attributes, I found this email from 4 years ago: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/2006-July/msg00059.html > > In it, "Mike" said "Seems that my schema conversion tool doesn't > support attribute inheritance...[snip]...I will keep this in mind for > a feature enhancement." > > rfc2252 defines superior attributes, and it was something I was using > in my schema definition since I have a lot of new attributes and all > but 4 of them had one of 5 different configs of "EQUALITY|ORDERING" > and "SYNTAX". Not only was it cleaner to be able to just inherit the > syntax and matching rules, it also was faster ;) Obviously, it > doesn't keep me from doing anything. > > Was this ever looked at again for a feature enhancement? Is it > already available, if I do X thing? A feature enhancement to the schema conversion tool? I'm not sure who maintains that now. > > During the schema reload, I got this error (for context): > > dse - The entry cn=schema in file > /etc/dirsrv/slapd-(server)/schema/97hosting.ldif is invalid, error > code 21 (Invalid syntax) - attribute type nocastr128: Missing parent > attribute syntax OID > > I got it because I was using "SUP nocastr128" in an attributeType, > after defining an attributeType of nocastr128 with the base components > I wanted to inherit. So the problem is that SYNTAX is not inherited from the parent? What version of 389-ds-base are you using? Can you post the definitions of the parent and child attributes? > > Thanks, > Brian LaMere > > ps - I have 2 more emails I'm sending; since they are on different > subjects, I thought I'd break them into different emails. Please let > me know if this was a bad idea and I won't do it again. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
