Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
You know a guy at NW was making a good point when he said that a lot of the enterprise Linux stuff runs with packages of software *years* out of date, and how it was annoying that users on the FR list would only shout UPGRADE when presented with a version anything older than the latest point release.
Tough. If he's chosen to run software that's no longer supported, that's his problem. If he's buying support for an "enterprise Linux" distribution then THEY can support the old version of the server. If he's willing to pay, he can click on the "support" link on freeradius.org. Otherwise... upgrade.
But hell if you can't figure out how to set up a compiler and build the thing from source, should you really be managing such a complex bit of software :).
The official story for not upgrading is usually either "lack of support", or "consistency of the system". The responses are: a) Great! Buy support from someone (OS vendor, etc.) If not, good luck getting the problem fixed. b) Live with a system that's consistent, but doesn't do what you want, and isn't supported. Alan DeKok.