2.1.1 has been released

[John Dennis]

Charlie B wrote:
> Actually for Fedora/Redhat and yes it would contain radtest and now 
> upgraded to radmin but I'm looking for the package, I looked to build 
> the rpm from freeradius-server-2.1.1.tar.gz but was unable to for the 
> utils, so thought I would ask to see were I could grab them
Fedora has built and released the new 2.1.1 version of FreeRADIUS 
(available the same day it was released by the FreeRADIUS project). It 
is available in the development (aka rawhide) repository or it may be 
downloaded via the Koji build system, http://koji.fedoraproject.org 
(enter freeradius in the packages search box to locate all builds)

With regard to the new radmin utility, it is in the main freeradius 
package, not freeradius-utils.

The new 2.1.1 has had only very cursory testing in Fedora, I encourage 
Fedora users to exercise the package and report any Fedora specific 
problems at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=freeradius

Alan Buxey: The reason why freeradius is split into sub-packages is to 
accommodate users who want a minimal install which does not pull in 
other packages to satisfy dependencies. The installer automatically 
detects the dependencies of any rpm it installs and recursively installs 
every dependency. For example we build FreeRADIUS with support for 
mysql, postgresql and ldap but as a user you might not use any of these 
backends. In this case where a user just wants to install freeradius 
they will get cranky if it requires them to install large database 
packages they never intend to use. Thus by having fine grained 
subpackages you can electively install the freeradius-mysql subpackage 
if you want to use freeradius with MySQL and the only database server 
the installer will add is mysql, you won't be forced to install 
postgress or ldap, etc. Think of this as the equivalent of the configure 
script with-* command line options used during building, but applied at 
installation time.

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>