another 2.1.0 compile error

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Sep 9 21:36:00 CEST 2008


John Dennis wrote:
> I know the freeradius source tree and source tarball contains rpm spec
> files and some suse and redhat specific info but I wonder if that is the
> right place for that information, the distribution in question will have
> up to date spec files specific to their distributions, I'm not sure
> upstream is the place to go looking for it. The last time I looked at
> the redhat directory it was way out of date.

  I've taken occasional looks at the upstream spec files, and pulled
changes in.  But the integration should be a little stronger.

> This is one reason I'm
> dubious upstream is the place to maintain spec files (IMHO it's kinda
> backwards ;-)

  Some people want custom installations.  Having an "almost OK' spec
file distributed with the source is often easier than pulling the spec
file from elsewhere.

> Now having said that, I realize there isn't a 2.1.0 rpm spec file in
> Fedora yet, so you would be right to say "how can I consult it?", but
> I'm willing to bet the current 2.0.5 spec file would be pretty close to
> what 2.1.0 needs.

  Yes.

  Alan DeKok.



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