The following reply was made to PR pkg/34183; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org, bad@bsd.de
Subject: Re: pkg/34183: openldap-server dies silently on startup after fresh install
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:46:30 +0200

 On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 08:55:02PM +0000, Christoph Badura wrote:
 > It is a well-established pkgsrc tradition that we fix programs in pkgsrc
 > and offer the patches upstream, so that they originators can incorporate
 > our improvements if they want.  But we don't make our improvments dependend
 > on the good-will of the upstream maintainers.
 
 Yes, we *do* fix portability problems, and some bugs we encounter, but we
 intententionally *don't* change program design/behaviour as to save people
 from surprises when they switch between systems.  As this is not a bug but
 a design decision (although I agree it's a poor one), you should discuss it
 with the people who designed the program, not those who merely packaged it.
 
 > >  > - slapd fails to start because the permissions on $PKG_SYSCONFDIR/openldap and
 > >  > below don't allow slapd to access the files because they aren't group readable.
 > >  This dir should be world-readable (755) by default.  Only slapd.conf itself
 > >  should be confidential (750 root:ldap).  
 > 
 > >  > - the file permissions on /var/openldap/openldap-data are wrong, too.
 > >  This dir should be created as 700 slapd:ldap.  
 > 
 > I don't particularly care what the permissions should be. The package
 > doesn't set the permissions so that the software actually works.  That
 > needs to be fixed in the package.
 
 Ok, let me reword: this dir is *is* created as 700 slapd:ldap.
 
 SLAPD_DIRPERMS=		${SLAPD_USER} ${LDAP_GROUP} 0700
 OWN_DIRS_PERMS=		${OPENLDAP_VARDIR}/openldap-data ${SLAPD_DIRPERMS}
 
 Did you read the MESSAGE file? (pkg_info -D openldap-server)
 
 	Geert