Build a custom module

Peter Nixon listuser at peternixon.net
Tue Jul 3 19:38:40 CEST 2007


On Tue 03 Jul 2007, Hugh Messenger wrote:
> <baki at enternet.hu> said:
> > I am developing a custom module for Debian 4.0 with preinstalled
> > FreeRADIUS 1.1.3,
>
> Baki - unless you have some utterly compelling reason to be working on the
> Debian distro version, you really should upgrade to at least 1.1.7.
> Depending on your schedule, you might even want to look seriously at the
> 2.0.0 beta.
>
> <flame>
> I'm just wondering why some of the major Linux releases are still shipping
> 1.1.3.  It's getting ridiculous.  We're about to move to 2.0 ("real soon
> now"), and folk like RH, Debian and friends are still distributing a way
> out of date 1.x, perpetuating all the usual legacy support headaches for
> Alan et al.
>
> Is there anything the freeradius community can do about this?  Can we
> write our /Congressmen|Member of Parliament|Dictator|Oligarch/?  Threaten
> to scream and scream until we're sick if we don't get our own way?

Yep. Use SUSE Linux which ships FreeRADIUS Server 1.1.6 and FreeRADIUS Client 
1.1.5 in the latest version and engages with the community. Alternatively if 
you use one of these "way out of date" distros, submit bug reports and 
complain...

Cheers

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