Hi All,
The freeradius version in CentOS 5 is ancient, so I've been considering rebuilding the Fedora 10 rpm for freeradius-2.1.3 on CentOS. That means I'll have to maintain the package, and I'm not an uber packager. Normally I wouldn't care, but in this case I do because the freeradius server is going to be critical.
So, should I rebuild the F10 rpm, or should I just stick with the version in CentOS 5? Based on what I'm reading, moving to a newer release would be wise.
Regards,
Ranbir
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:41:56AM -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Hi All,
The freeradius version in CentOS 5 is ancient, so I've been considering rebuilding the Fedora 10 rpm for freeradius-2.1.3 on CentOS. That means I'll have to maintain the package, and I'm not an uber packager. Normally I wouldn't care, but in this case I do because the freeradius server is going to be critical.
So, should I rebuild the F10 rpm, or should I just stick with the version in CentOS 5? Based on what I'm reading, moving to a newer release would be wise.
Regards,
Ranbir
What about branching Fedora freeradius for EPEL?
Ray
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 08:44 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
What about branching Fedora freeradius for EPEL?
I guess I can I make a package request there (I already checked - they don't have it).
Are people really deploying freeradius-1.1.3??
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:56:30AM -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 08:44 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
What about branching Fedora freeradius for EPEL?
I guess I can I make a package request there (I already checked - they don't have it).
Are people really deploying freeradius-1.1.3??
Seriously doubt it. If I still worked at an ISP and did want to pay for Radiator, I would not use such an old version. It's one thing if someone is backporting security fixes and such into it... :-)
I'd be going the manual route. I'd vote for branching this into EPEL which would hopefully keep it in sync with the F10 version, and, that failing update the CentOS-Extras one.
Ray
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:51 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
What are these things you are reading ? Might be worth verifying some of them.
Attribute changes, additional features, etc. freeradius devs aren't fixing bugs in the 1.1 releases anymore, though I know CentOS' upstream will backport, if need be.
I suppose my real concern is if our soon-to-arrive network gear requires features included only in the 2.0 and up releases.
Regards,
Ranbir
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:41 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Hi All,
The freeradius version in CentOS 5 is ancient, so I've been considering rebuilding the Fedora 10 rpm for freeradius-2.1.3 on CentOS. That means I'll have to maintain the package, and I'm not an uber packager. Normally I wouldn't care, but in this case I do because the freeradius server is going to be critical.
So, should I rebuild the F10 rpm, or should I just stick with the version in CentOS 5? Based on what I'm reading, moving to a newer release would be wise.
---- that's what I did...downloaded the F10 SRPM and rebuilt it on a CentOS 5 system and installed via rpm -Uvh
I believe that someone put the steps on the freeradius.org wiki but it was right after I did it myself so I didn't check through the various steps listed in the wiki.
Craig
Craig White wrote:
that's what I did...downloaded the F10 SRPM and rebuilt it on a CentOS 5 system and installed via rpm -Uvh
If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :)
Maybe a few people can collaborate on this?
- KB
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:13 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :)
Maybe a few people can collaborate on this?
I suck at packaging. Well, I think I suck, anyway. Beyond taking the F10 SRPM and rebuilding on CentOS 5 with a few customizations (e.g. update the changelog, sign it with our key, change the packager, etc.), I wouldn't be doing anything else. It's probably not the ideal way to do it.
I assume there's a particular way packages need to be built for inclusion into centosplus. Where be the info? :)
Regards,
Ranbir
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:17 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:13 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :)
Maybe a few people can collaborate on this?
I suck at packaging. Well, I think I suck, anyway. Beyond taking the F10 SRPM and rebuilding on CentOS 5 with a few customizations (e.g. update the changelog, sign it with our key, change the packager, etc.), I wouldn't be doing anything else. It's probably not the ideal way to do it.
I assume there's a particular way packages need to be built for inclusion into centosplus. Where be the info? :)
---- http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ
Craig
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:13 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :)
Maybe a few people can collaborate on this?
I suck at packaging. Well, I think I suck, anyway. Beyond taking the F10 SRPM and rebuilding on CentOS 5 with a few customizations (e.g. update the changelog, sign it with our key, change the packager, etc.), I wouldn't be doing anything else. It's probably not the ideal way to do it.
I assume there's a particular way packages need to be built for inclusion into centosplus. Where be the info? :)
Sounds like you are pretty good at packaging.
See http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packages/ContributeYourRPMs
See you on centos-devel.
Phil
Karanbir Singh wrote:
If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :)
Maybe a few people can collaborate on this?
- KB
That would be a good idea. We've been upgrading from the base version included with CentOS 5 on all our boxes for quite some time now. What is involved in maintaining / managing a package in the plus repoistory?
-Dave
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:13 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Craig White wrote:
that's what I did...downloaded the F10 SRPM and rebuilt it on a CentOS 5 system and installed via rpm -Uvh
If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :)
Maybe a few people can collaborate on this?
---- first of all, there's very good instructions which I previously linked.
secondly, I can only build i386 at the present time.
lastly, I'm up and running and don't see much need to continually monitor updates and releases unless there's a security issue.
Craig
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:17 -0700, Craig White wrote:
first of all, there's very good instructions which I previously linked.
secondly, I can only build i386 at the present time.
I can build x86_64 and i386.
lastly, I'm up and running and don't see much need to continually monitor updates and releases unless there's a security issue.
I'd be doing it for the community, not just myself. It would help everyone out. Besides, what comes around, goes around.
Regards,
Ranbir
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