Why freeradius-config in debian packaging

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

On 29 Aug 2014, at 05:32, Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:

>>>>>> "Alan" == Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> writes:
> 
>    Alan> Sam Hartman wrote:
>>> I notice that the configuration files were split out into
>>> freeradius-config from freeradius-common.
> 
>    Alan>   That's Arran's change.  The idea is to separate the
>    Alan> *default* configuration from the local *edited* configuration.
> 
> so, is the idea that if I have my own local config I might not install
> freeradius-config at all?

Yes, you roll your own local config package, and manage the versioning
independently of the server packages.

Could you explain why it breaks upgrades?

We never intended the version 2 packages to be upgraded to version 3,
that won't work, the configurations are not compatible.

There's not really a sane way to 'upgrade' configurations once they've
been customised. I know debian packaging prevents customised config files
from being overwritten, but it still installs new config files added to 
the default packages from the upstream source.

This is annoying for administrators who like to strip down the default
config to only the files they're using, as upgrades introduce cruft 
back into /etc/raddb.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS development team

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