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.
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 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. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204