New RHEL and Fedora package maintainer
Hi everyone, My name is Nikolai Kondrashov (Nick for short, aka spbnick) and I'm the new maintainer of FreeRADIUS packages for RHEL and Fedora, replacing John Dennis. I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further. In addition to being the package maintainer, I'll also participate in SSSD [1] development and will continue maintaining my DIGImend [2] project, when time allows. You can find my working background on LinkedIn [3]. I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer. Please voice any concerns or suggestions you have and I will try to address them. Thank you. Nick [1] https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ [2] http://digimend.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/spbnick
Hi Nick, Welcome to the mailing lists.
My name is Nikolai Kondrashov (Nick for short, aka spbnick) and I'm the new maintainer of FreeRADIUS packages for RHEL and Fedora, replacing John Dennis.
That's positive.
I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further.
In addition to being the package maintainer, I'll also participate in SSSD [1] development and will continue maintaining my DIGImend [2] project, when time allows. You can find my working background on LinkedIn [3].
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required). -Arran Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> FreeRADIUS Development Team FD31 3077 42EC 7FCD 32FE 5EE2 56CF 27F9 30A8 CAA2
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> wrote:
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required).
... and updating http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/Red-Hat-FAQ when possible? For example, the page still links to http://people.redhat.com/jdennis/freeradius-rhel-centos While there is an "update" section just below that, personally I think it's now somewhat confusing. -- Fajar On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> wrote:
Hi Nick,
Welcome to the mailing lists.
My name is Nikolai Kondrashov (Nick for short, aka spbnick) and I'm the new maintainer of FreeRADIUS packages for RHEL and Fedora, replacing John Dennis.
That's positive.
I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further.
In addition to being the package maintainer, I'll also participate in SSSD [1] development and will continue maintaining my DIGImend [2] project, when time allows. You can find my working background on LinkedIn [3].
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required).
-Arran
Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> FreeRADIUS Development Team
FD31 3077 42EC 7FCD 32FE 5EE2 56CF 27F9 30A8 CAA2
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Would love to see some freely available RPMs of the latest version of FreeRadius. -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+adrian.p.smith=bt.com@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+adrian.p.smith=bt.com@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Fajar A. Nugraha Sent: 22 May 2014 11:30 To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: New RHEL and Fedora package maintainer On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> wrote:
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required).
Hi Nick,
Welcome to the mailing lists.
My name is Nikolai Kondrashov (Nick for short, aka spbnick) and I'm the new maintainer of FreeRADIUS packages for RHEL and Fedora, replacing John Dennis.
That's positive.
I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further.
In addition to being the package maintainer, I'll also participate in SSSD [1] development and will continue maintaining my DIGImend [2] project, when time allows. You can find my working background on LinkedIn [3].
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required).
-Arran
Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> FreeRADIUS Development Team
FD31 3077 42EC 7FCD 32FE 5EE2 56CF 27F9 30A8 CAA2
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... and updating http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/Red-Hat-FAQ when possible? For example, the page still links to http://people.redhat.com/jdennis/freeradius-rhel-centos While there is an "update" section just below that, personally I think it's now somewhat confusing. -- Fajar On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> wrote: - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Adrian, AFAIK Fedora's been running with FR 3.0.x for a while now. For CentOS though, you're stuck with 2.2.x for the time being. Stefan -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of adrian.p.smith@bt.com Sent: 22 May 2014 14:29 To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: RE: New RHEL and Fedora package maintainer Would love to see some freely available RPMs of the latest version of FreeRadius. Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Stefan Paetow <Stefan.Paetow@ja.net> wrote:
Adrian,
AFAIK Fedora's been running with FR 3.0.x for a while now.
For CentOS though, you're stuck with 2.2.x for the time being.
I think what Adrian wants is the equivalent of my ppa (https://launchpad.net/~freeradius) for rhel/centos/fedora. It'd be best (for users) if the build comes with distro-specific customizations/patches, but it's fine even if it's just packages built using the default recipe included in FR tarball (which is what https://launchpad.net/~freeradius/+archive/stable-3.0 does) as long as it's close enough. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service provides ppa-like service for multiple distros (including rhel/centos/fedora), so server/bandwitdh resources shouldn't be an issue. The main resource needed would be the time needed to manage the build recipes, and fixing it in case something goes wrong. -- Fajar
Stefan
-----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of adrian.p.smith@bt.com Sent: 22 May 2014 14:29 To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: RE: New RHEL and Fedora package maintainer
Would love to see some freely available RPMs of the latest version of FreeRadius.
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On 05/23/2014 12:50 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Stefan Paetow <Stefan.Paetow@ja.net> wrote:
Adrian,
AFAIK Fedora's been running with FR 3.0.x for a while now.
For CentOS though, you're stuck with 2.2.x for the time being.
I think what Adrian wants is the equivalent of my ppa (https://launchpad.net/~freeradius) for rhel/centos/fedora. It'd be best (for users) if the build comes with distro-specific customizations/patches, but it's fine even if it's just packages built using the default recipe included in FR tarball (which is what https://launchpad.net/~freeradius/+archive/stable-3.0 does) as long as it's close enough.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service provides ppa-like service for multiple distros (including rhel/centos/fedora), so server/bandwitdh resources shouldn't be an issue. The main resource needed would be the time needed to manage the build recipes, and fixing it in case something goes wrong.
Unfortunately, I'm not able to provide builds outside the standard channels, i.e. RHEL and Fedora repos. For RHEL, QA services are one of the core business values of Red Hat and it would be against company purpose to provide the packages freely. With Fedora, it seems it is more relaxed, but still spending effort on extra packaging is not considered appropriate. And lastly, frankly, so far I have my hands full trying to keep up with bugs being reported and releases to be packaged, and still have to learn many things. This in addition to participating in SSSD development. However, the Fedora packaging source repository is freely available at http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/freeradius.git so if anyone is willing to implement it, it could be possible to use that as a source for an automatic build and publishing system, such as the openSUSE build service. Nick
Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm not able to provide builds outside the standard channels, i.e. RHEL and Fedora repos.
For everyone else, there is interest in packages, please let us know. We may be able to start an official "freeradius" repository. It could have packages for pretty much all common distributions. Alan DeKok.
That actually sounds very good, Alan. It certainly would make a certain synchrotron facility I know happy because it's a vendor-official repo :-) Stefan ________________________________________ From: freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org [freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org] on behalf of Alan DeKok [aland@deployingradius.com] Sent: 23 May 2014 17:35 To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Package availability question Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm not able to provide builds outside the standard channels, i.e. RHEL and Fedora repos.
For everyone else, there is interest in packages, please let us know. We may be able to start an official "freeradius" repository. It could have packages for pretty much all common distributions. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238
It could be a question for EPEL (because that's what EPEL effectively is… a repo for things that move faster than the distributions) then, although this might get vetoed on the basis that it could/would clash with the official distribution packages. Stefan ________________________________________ From: freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org [freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org] on behalf of Fajar A. Nugraha [list@fajar.net] Sent: 22 May 2014 22:50 To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: New RHEL and Fedora package maintainer On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Stefan Paetow <Stefan.Paetow@ja.net> wrote:
Adrian,
AFAIK Fedora's been running with FR 3.0.x for a while now.
For CentOS though, you're stuck with 2.2.x for the time being.
I think what Adrian wants is the equivalent of my ppa (https://launchpad.net/~freeradius) for rhel/centos/fedora. It'd be best (for users) if the build comes with distro-specific customizations/patches, but it's fine even if it's just packages built using the default recipe included in FR tarball (which is what https://launchpad.net/~freeradius/+archive/stable-3.0 does) as long as it's close enough. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service provides ppa-like service for multiple distros (including rhel/centos/fedora), so server/bandwitdh resources shouldn't be an issue. The main resource needed would be the time needed to manage the build recipes, and fixing it in case something goes wrong. Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238
On 05/23/2014 04:53 PM, Stefan Paetow wrote:
It could be a question for EPEL (because that's what EPEL effectively is… a repo for things that move faster than the distributions) then, although this might get vetoed on the basis that it could/would clash with the official distribution packages.
Sorry, that's not permitted for exactly the reason you cite, EPEL cannot contain packages already packaged for RHEL. -- John
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:28 PM, <adrian.p.smith@bt.com> wrote:
Would love to see some freely available RPMs of the latest version of FreeRadius.
I finally have a chance to test opensuse's build service for freeradius, and it's pretty cool :) It also supports granting permission to manage a project to other users (similar to what ubuntu ppa does) Two fixes needed for the build (pull request submitted on github). Resulting centos RPMs from the test: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Afreeradius%3A2.x.x... http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Afreeradius%3A3.0.x... Now if only someone has the time to: - manage the builds - add other distros, especially RPM-based one (e.g. no packages for *suse so far) - manage the "freeradius" account on opensuse's build service -- Fajar
Fajar, If you're building for CentOS and RHEL, I would advise using the official SPEC from RHEL (visit git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/freeradius.git for it). This is what Nick and before him John worked from, and which I also pull from. There are several patches that are applied on RHEL specifically. Arran, Alan D, perhaps we should merge some of those bits back. I can send over a pull request on Tuesday when I'm back in the office. Regards Stefan ________________________________ From: freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org [freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org] on behalf of Fajar A. Nugraha [list@fajar.net] Sent: 23 May 2014 15:12 To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: New RHEL and Fedora package maintainer On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:28 PM, <adrian.p.smith@bt.com<mailto:adrian.p.smith@bt.com>> wrote: Would love to see some freely available RPMs of the latest version of FreeRadius. I finally have a chance to test opensuse's build service for freeradius, and it's pretty cool :) It also supports granting permission to manage a project to other users (similar to what ubuntu ppa does) Two fixes needed for the build (pull request submitted on github). Resulting centos RPMs from the test: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Afreeradius%3A2.x.x... http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Afreeradius%3A3.0.x... Now if only someone has the time to: - manage the builds - add other distros, especially RPM-based one (e.g. no packages for *suse so far) - manage the "freeradius" account on opensuse's build service -- Fajar Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238
Hi Fajar, On 05/22/2014 01:30 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org> wrote:
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required).
... and updating http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/Red-Hat-FAQ when possible?
For example, the page still links to http://people.redhat.com/jdennis/freeradius-rhel-centos
While there is an "update" section just below that, personally I think it's now somewhat confusing.
Thanks, I'll see to that next week. Nick
On 05/22/2014 01:17 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
Welcome to the mailing lists.
Thanks, Arran!
My name is Nikolai Kondrashov (Nick for short, aka spbnick) and I'm the new maintainer of FreeRADIUS packages for RHEL and Fedora, replacing John Dennis.
That's positive.
I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further.
In addition to being the package maintainer, I'll also participate in SSSD [1] development and will continue maintaining my DIGImend [2] project, when time allows. You can find my working background on LinkedIn [3].
I'd like to ask both users and the development team what you would like to see from Fedora and RHEL packaging of FreeRADIUS and from me as a maintainer.
I think the main thing is just keeping us in the loop, let us know if there are issues, talk to us, and contribute back fixes (if required).
I will, you can count on that. Sincerely, Nick
Welcome to the list, Nikolai!
I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further.
Glad to hear you're feeling better. Looking forward to working with you :-) Stefan Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238
On 05/22/2014 05:40 PM, Stefan Paetow wrote:
Welcome to the list, Nikolai!
I have actually started about mid-February, but was mostly learning and then had a string of colds, which kept me from working. John was and hopefully will be assisting me in learning further.
Glad to hear you're feeling better. Looking forward to working with you :-)
Thank you, Stefan, me too :) Sincerely, Nick
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Stefan Paetow