RPM Build Errors

[Phil Mayers]

Jos Vos wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:06:40PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
> 
>> I can see two options, neither very pleasant :o(
>>
>>  1. For the short term distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu), volunteer to be 
>> a packager. In principle I could do this for Fedora; in practice I have 
>> no time or patience for the politics involved.
> 
> Fedora does follow the releases pretty close, I think.  They now have
> version 2.0.2.  You can always trigger the maintainer (who's name is
> in the spec file) for upgrading.

In Fedora 9 beta, yes. Fedora 7 & 8 have 1.1.7, which is nice. Maybe 
that other, non-Fedora distros are equally up-to-date; if so, it's not 
an issue.

> 
>>  2. For the long term distributions (e.g. RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu LTS) 
>> politely ask the distribution to either track no more than 6 months old, 
>> or if they are unable/unwilling, ask them not to include FreeRadius.
>>
>> It's GPLed software so of course they're free to refuse the latter; but 
>> they would probably honour it. Whether it's desirable is another matter
> 
> I don't think they will honour that.  And I think it's a unrealistic

Shrug. I disagree on both counts, but I don't see the point in arguing 
with you.

> request.  As I said in an old thread (when I asked something related
> to version 1.0.1 (!), as included in RHEL4): on this list you're of
> course all free to ignore questions you don't like, but I honoustly
> hope we also stay all free to ask questions about older releases.
> 

You're free to ask what you like, in that context. People might not 
answer, and in my opinion you'll be degrading the signal/noise ratio, 
but I'm not the boss of anyone - ask away.

For example: on several occasions I've fired up 1.1.7 or 2.0.x and 
tested a suggestion before I've answered i.e. I'm actually doing a 
little bit of work, because the mailing list has given me so much I feel 
I should give back.

I've even pulled source tarballs and given the source code for a module 
a quick look over to clarify exact behaviour before replying.

I'm not going to waste time doing that for 1.0.1, and I feel pretty 
confident when I hazard a guess that few people will.