I have heard rumours from some Red Hat employees that IPA will be integrated into Spacewalk this was about 1.5 months ago which would also make sense since Spacewalk is supposed to be their single point of management tool.

But as I said it's rumours.

Regards Per Qvindesland

--- Original message follows --- SUBJECT: Re: [CentOS] FreeIPA FROM:  Fabian Arrotin TO: "CentOS mailing list" DATE: 08-04-2009 13:26

Craig White wrote:

doing some googling, this seems to be about the most

current/relevant

thing I have found wrt to running freeipa server on CentOS

http://howtoforge.com/how-to-build-rhel-ipa-rpms-for-centos-5

which I'm not totally adverse to doing but I have to ask, is there something packaged? (I've looked in 'testing' and in 'extras' and

in

epel)

Has anyone followed some other instructions?

Craig

I spoke with Simo Sorce at the Fosdem event regarding that (having IPA/FreeIPA rpms sitting in the Extras repository) Due to the fact that Red Hat made it clear now that the actual RHEIPA

will be discontinued (at least in its actual form and will probably change to something else ...) we still don't know what direction to take. Rebuilding FreeIPA is probably possible too but how long will that be

possible ? FreeIPA isn't looking at being backward compatible and don't focus on RHEL interopability. It can probably work for a certain time, but surely not as long as an Enterprise timelife ... That's maybe worth discussing it though. On the other hand, centos-ds is in the testing repo for a while and there were not a lot of feedback : the plan is/was to move it to extras when enough testing/reports have hit the -devel list ...