On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:55:25AM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Huckle Berry wrote:
> > I have a server that is running a relatively clean install of Ubuntu
> > 9.10 Server. Due to the known licensing issue restrictions I cannot
> > simply use the debian freeradius package.
>
> This was fixed in 2.1.8.

As of this morning, the latest version of freeradius in the (karmic 9.10) repos is 2.1.0. Although 2.1.8 is availible as a lenny backport for debian, I get the feeling that your suggestion is to stick with distribution packages whenever possible. Supposing I wanted to use the debian package to install 2.1.8 onto my ubuntu system the following (taken from http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html) should do the trick, correct?

$dpkg-source -x foo_version-revision.dsc

$cd foo-version

$dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

$dpkg -i ../foo_version-revision_arch.deb

>
> > I would like to know if the
> > following outline would install freeradius with support for SSL on my
> > server. Comments from those who actually run freeradius on Ubuntu 9.10
> > server would be appreciated.
>
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/Build
>
> Has instructions for building on debian && ubuntu.
>
> I've updated the Wiki to reflect this.

The text currently there says that building packages with dpkg-buildpackage
is "best", but it's actually now second best to installing working packages
from the official repositories.

Version 2.1.8 is available for the lucid lynx (10.04) which just released (non-beta) this morning. I'm not a firm believer in 'version 1' software and generally avoid getting new distro-upgrades the day they come out. However since 10.04 is a long-term-support I may consider installing it. Do you think that re-installing the OS is worth it in this case, or will I be fine running the above and building it from source?

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