Hi,
Thought I'd have a look at building FreeRADIUS RPMs. I advanced from RedHat to Debian over 15 years ago, so not at all familiar with their repositories etc now. So apologies if the below is just me being stupid.
welcome to some of the pain I went through earlier in the year (hence some of those GIT commits to the .spec file ! ;-) yes, EPEL is almost necessary.....and Scientific Linux is very handy for putting the devtools-4 package onto the system GCC 5.x nice.. ;-) (ensure you put it into system profile so you dont get burnt next time you log in! ;-)
I think there should be an easy way for people to build RPMs, like you can .debs.
rpmbuild -bb - you just need the required dev packages installed first ;-)
Thoughts -
- building RPMs should be as simple as possible for anyone;
no. should be easy for competent people, 'anyone' should be able to just add FreeRADIUS via an RPM or repo. get latest 3.0.11 version via RPMs like many do with Debian/Ubunty PPA files.
- you shouldn't have to add extra unofficial repositories to do so;
ha! tell RadHat to up their game, provide modern versions of packages and to provide MORE of them :) I cant believe people PAY for RedHat :/
(getting totally fed up of "I'm using 2.1.12 or 3.0.4" on -users, and wanting something useful and easy to point people at...)
the answer is the FreeRADIUS build system - new RPMs need to be provided there. alan