Jos Vos wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:
It should be easier for *new* installs to use 2.x. Otherwise, they install the "latest" RHEL version, and then get told to upgrade.
This is unrealistic. How should RH maintain a "sliding" base?
I didn't say "include new software with old RHEL versions". I said "easier to install new software". The RedHat FAQ page on the Wiki helps with that.
And what does "RHEL5" mean if the version you have installed depends on the time of installation? And what about large customers having many servers installed and now install another one (with a different version)?
If that's what they do... then that's what they get. It's *their* problem. It's not *our* problem, and it's not a *RedHat* problem.
Note that I have chosen myself to run a new(er) version of FreeRADIUS on an installed base of RHEL4 servers, by "backporting" a recent Fedora src.rpm to RHEL4. So I *do* see the need in some situations for having a new version. But that's not the fault of Red Hat, it's just the way it works.
Yes... and the people who *can't* backport the spec files have been asking a lot of questions on this list. Hence the RedHat FAQ on the Wiki. Alan DeKok.