Is this Install Guide Complete?

[Huckle Berry]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Josip Rodin <joy at entuzijast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:55:25AM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
> > Huckle Berry wrote:
> > > I have a server that is running a relatively clean install of Ubuntu
> > > 9.10 Server. Due to the known licensing issue restrictions I cannot
> > > simply use the debian freeradius package.
> >
> >   This was fixed in 2.1.8.
>

 As of this morning, the latest version of freeradius in the (karmic 9.10)
repos is 2.1.0. Although 2.1.8 is availible as a lenny backport for debian,
I get the feeling that your suggestion is to stick with distribution
packages whenever possible. Supposing I wanted to use the debian package to
install 2.1.8 onto my ubuntu system the following (taken from
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html) should do the trick,
correct?

$dpkg-source -x foo_version-revision.dsc
$cd foo-version
$dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
$dpkg -i ../foo_version-revision_arch.deb


> >
> > > I would like to know if the
> > > following outline would install freeradius with support for SSL on my
> > > server. Comments from those who actually run freeradius on Ubuntu 9.10
> > > server would be appreciated.
> >
> > http://wiki.freeradius.org/Build
> >
> >   Has instructions for building on debian && ubuntu.
> >
> >   I've updated the Wiki to reflect this.
>
>
>
> The text currently there says that building packages with dpkg-buildpackage
> is "best", but it's actually now second best to installing working packages
> from the official repositories.
>
 Version 2.1.8 is available for the lucid lynx (10.04) which just released
(non-beta) this morning. I'm not a firm believer in 'version 1' software and
generally avoid getting new distro-upgrades the day they come out. However
since 10.04 is a long-term-support I may consider installing it. Do you
think that re-installing the OS is worth it in this case, or will I be fine
running the above and building it from source?


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