On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:26 +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > 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 ... ---- obviously Simo is in a position to know about these things. I guess the thing that surprises me is that I went to the Red Hat road show last September and they were promoting FreeIPA as the up and coming technology and so I was rather shocked that it seemed impossible (to me anyway) to build a reasonably current version on CentOS (and by extension, RHEL). I will install CentOS-DS but I suspect that what I will find is that it is a stable version of Fedora-DS which is fine, but I have Fedora-DS running somewhere else already and by itself, it didn't give me any goosebumps and was more painful to setup than OpenLDAP. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.