RPM Build Errors

[Jos Vos]

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.

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