SLAPD-COLLATIONS.CONF(5)

📦 version 3.3.1, in arch rolling, centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 SLAPD-COLLATIONS.CONF(5) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the File Formats Manual section, because today we're unpacking /etc/dirsrv/config/slapd-collations.conf — the little file that's out here holding down the entire 389 Directory Server's language situation. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

/etc/dirsrv/config/slapd-collations.conf — this is the file that holds all the language tags and OID's used in 389 Directory Server. that's it, that's the job. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/etc/dirsrv/config/slapd-collations.conf

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like. slapd-collations.conf.

this file contains all the collation rules — and when I say all, I mean the tags and the OID's — that the Directory Server actually uses. every single one. it's giving master list energy. 👑

💜 SYNTAX 💜

collation — okay so this parameter is laid out like this, in this exact order, and the way that it's structured is literally: language, country, variant, strength, decomposition, oid, oid ...

note that trailing oid ... bestie — you can keep stacking OID's on there. the more the merrier fr fr. ✨

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

collation "" "" "" 1 3  2.16.840.1.113730.3.3.2.0.1 default
collation ar "" "" 1 3  2.16.840.1.113730.3.3.2.1.1 ar
collation be "" "" 1 3  2.16.840.1.113730.3.3.2.2.1 be  be-BY
...
...

see how the pattern goes? empty quotes when there's no country or variant, then the numbers, then the OID's, then the aliases. iconic. and yeah, it keeps going — those ... lines are the file just doing its thing for a while. 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

slapd-collations.conf was written by the 389 Project. give them their flowers. 🫶

🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🔥

found something cursed? report bugs to:

https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/new

go tell them directly, bestie, they want to know. 💀

💅 COPYRIGHT 💅

and that's the whole vibe check — this page came to you from Jun 26, 2018, part of the SLAPD-COLLATIONS.CONF(5) manual. stay collated, stay cute, mwah. 💖🌈⭐

📦 where this page comes from

arch rolling: 389-ds-base 3.3.1-1 · GPL-3.0-only
centos-stream 10: 389-ds-base 3.3.0-4.el10 · GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GPL-3.0-389-ds-base-exception AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (MIT OR Unlicense) AND Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND MPL-2.0 AND Zlib
centos-stream 9: 389-ds-base 2.9.0-5.el9 · GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GPL-3.0-389-ds-base-exception AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (MIT OR Unlicense) AND Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND MPL-2.0 AND Zlib
debian bookworm: 389-ds-base 2.3.1+dfsg1-1+deb12u1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
debian trixie: 389-ds-base 3.1.2+dfsg1-1+deb13u1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
fedora 43: 389-ds-base 3.1.3-10.fc43 · GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GPL-3.0-389-ds-base-exception AND (0BSD OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT OR Zlib) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (CC-BY-4.0 AND MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (MIT OR CC0-1.0) AND (MIT OR Unlicense) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND MIT AND MIT AND ISC AND MPL-2.0 AND PSF-2.0 AND Zlib
fedora 43: 389-ds-base 3.1.5-4.fc43 · GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GPL-3.0-389-ds-base-exception AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (CC-BY-4.0 AND MIT) AND (MIT OR Unlicense) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND MIT AND MIT AND ISC AND MPL-2.0 AND Zlib
fedora 44: 389-ds-base 3.2.0-15.fc44 · GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GPL-3.0-389-ds-base-exception AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (CC-BY-4.0 AND MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (MIT OR CC0-1.0) AND (MIT OR Unlicense) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND MIT AND MIT AND ISC AND MPL-2.0 AND PSF-2.0 AND Zlib
fedora 44: 389-ds-base 3.2.3-5.fc44 · GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GPL-3.0-389-ds-base-exception AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (CC-BY-4.0 AND MIT) AND (MIT OR Unlicense) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND MIT AND MIT AND ISC AND MPL-2.0 AND Zlib
nixos 26.05: 389-ds-base 3.1.3
nixpkgs unstable: 389-ds-base 3.3.0
opensuse-leap 16.0: 389-ds 3.0.7~git2.2846d5288-160000.1.1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND MPL-2.0
opensuse-leap 16.0: 389-ds 3.0.7~git2.2846d5288-160000.1.1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND MPL-2.0
opensuse-leap 16.0: 389-ds 3.0.7~git2.2846d5288-160000.1.1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND MPL-2.0
opensuse-leap 16.0: 389-ds 3.0.7~git2.2846d5288-160000.1.1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND MPL-2.0
ubuntu jammy: 389-ds-base 2.0.15-1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
ubuntu jammy: 389-ds-base 2.0.15-1ubuntu2 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
ubuntu noble: 389-ds-base 2.4.5+dfsg1-1 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
ubuntu questing: 389-ds-base 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
ubuntu resolute: 389-ds-base 3.1.2+vendor1-2 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
ubuntu stonking: 389-ds-base 3.3.1-3 · GPL-3.0-or-later AND Other
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