On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:24 +0100, Karanbir Singh 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 > > > > That mostly looks to be a waste of time to me, specially given that Red > Hat have made it public that FreeIPA might not really ever be a RHEL > product line, and if it does make it, the packaging format etc will be > very different from whats out there at the moment. > > And to the idiot who wrote that article on howtoforge : ( how do they > find such brain dead morons ? ) directly url'ing the testing repo is > really not recommended. ---- I just sort of used that as a guideline and used EPEL first, Fedora-10 source second for packages to try to build because of things I noticed in the changelogs, etc. I managed to get all the requisites handled except for popt-devel which I discussed but that didn't seem to be the deal breaker. Now that I recognize that the current version of freeipa wasn't meant to be built on RHEL, I will change course because I don't want to make that my mission if they don't. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.