building freeradius 1.1.0 suse rpm

[Markus Krause]

hi all!

first: sorry for not testing the build of suse rpms before the release date ..

building freeradius 1.1.0 rpms under suse enterprise server 9 i encountered the
follwing problems:

1) freeradius.spec mentions some config files that are (or at least seem for me
to be) not present:
   x99.conf
   x99passwd.sample
commenting them out in freeradius.spec solves the problem

on the other hand three files are missing:
   example.pl
   otp.conf
   otppasswd.conf

adding the following lines (seems to) fix the problem:
   %attr(640,-,radiusd) %config(noreplace) /etc/raddb/example.pl
   %attr(640,-,radiusd) %config(noreplace) /etc/raddb/otp.conf
   %attr(640,-,radiusd) %config(noreplace) /etc/raddb/otppasswd.sample


2) the next question may be quite stupid so please be patient but i a do not
have much "insider knowledge":
are all these packages listed in "BuildRequires" in freeradius.spec really
nedded?? at least i deleteted "postgresql" (i do not want/need mysql and
postgresql server installed on the same machine), "perl-devel" (there is not
such package available for suse). i am also wondering why e.g. packages like
python and ncurses/ncurses-devel are needed for building. don't get me wrong, i
just want to keep the system with as few packages as possible. and the packages
libzio and libnscd are also not available in the suse distribution, only via
rpmfind.net.

3) i am not sure what is responsible for this: during the bild (rpmbuild -bb
freeradius.spec) i got an error that the file
"/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so" is missing. a link (ln -s) to the existing
file "/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.12" solves this problem.

after these fixes the building of the rpms runs without problem (at least at the
end i got a freeradius-1.1.0-1.suse.i586.rpm which can be installed and runs
without problems.

sorry again for not testing this before the release date :-(

regards,
  markus


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