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| author | Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com> | 2009-02-25 16:43:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com> | 2009-02-26 09:13:32 -0500 |
| commit | 77454c07ba109a3ea6af0da86ba954b28b1fd02f (patch) | |
| tree | 5e5be00f9b77c42e697617acb9fd695f7c6a0e58 /ldb/web/index.html | |
| parent | c9f6d2795fde2f9bf80277d425df2b44bc860226 (diff) | |
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Remove our copies of the samba libraries.
Packages are already available in debian unstable and will soon land in Fedora.
See BUILD.TXT for details.
We still keep libreplace as we still use its configure macros, until we find
time to extract only waht we need and have our own macros.
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diff --git a/ldb/web/index.html b/ldb/web/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 26dd34452..000000000 --- a/ldb/web/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> -<HTML> -<HEAD> -<TITLE>ldb</TITLE> -</HEAD> -<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000" VLINK="#292555" LINK="#292555" ALINK="#cc0033"> - -<h1>ldb</h1> - -ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">LDAP</a> -standards compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please -see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a> -project.<p> - -What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API -designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen -as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real -LDAP database.<p> - -ldb is the database engine used in Samba4. - -<h2>Features</h2> - -The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are: - -<ul> -<li>Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking -<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Application_Program_Interface">LDAP-like API</a> -<li>fast operation -<li>choice of local tdb or remote LDAP backends -<li>integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a> -<li>schema-less operation, for trivial setup -<li>modules for extensions (such as schema support) -<li>easy setup of indexes and attribute properties -<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Data_Interchange_Format">LDIF</a> for import/export -<li>ldbedit tool for database (via LDIF) editing (reminiscent of 'vipw') -</ul> - -<h2>Documentation</h2> - -Currently ldb is completely lacking in programmer or user -documentation. This is your opportunity to make a contribution! Start -with the public functions declared in <a -href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/ldb/include/ldb.h">ldb.h</a> -and the example code in the <a -href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/ldb/tools/">tools -directory</a>. Documentation in the same docbook format used by Samba -would be preferred. - -<h2>Discussion and bug reports</h2> - -ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking -system. For now, please use the <a -href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a> -mailing list or the <a href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/ldb">ldb</a> -mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba bugzilla</a> bug tracking system. - -<h2>Download</h2> - -You can download the latest release either via rsync or thtough git.<br> -<br> -To fetch via git see the following guide:<br> -<a href="http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development">Using Git for Samba Development</a><br> -Once you have cloned the tree switch to the v4-0-test branch and cd into the source/lib/ldb directory.<br> -<br> -To fetch via rsync use these commands: - -<pre> - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/ldb . - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/tdb . - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/talloc . - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/libreplace . -</pre> - -and build in ldb. It will find the other libraries in the directory -above automatically. - -<hr> -<tiny> -<a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a><br> -ldb AT tridgell.net -</tiny> - -</BODY> -</HTML> |