Upgrade to 2.2.0

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 11:19 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> 
> By using a rpm spec file to build rpms from you'll get all the nasty 
> details of correct building handled for you. There are 2.2 rpms 
> available for Fedora. Just be aware spec files are also tuned for 
> specific Red Hat releases, you'll need to understand the differences 
> between Fedora and RHEL 5. All in all it can be non-trivial to get all
> the details of building and installing a system daemon correct, this
> is why we normally recommend folks use pre-build packages for their
> distribution.
> 
Unfortunately (?) the differences now between Fedora and RHEL,
especially in terms of Fedora using systemctl rather than SysV startup
scripts, means that using a Fedora SPEC file to build a package for RHEL
is generally fraught with problems.

However. I have this afternoon been rebuilding FreeRadius 2.2 using the
latest CentOS 5.8 freeradius2 RPM SPEC file. (Basically, using a SPEC
file that you know will work on the server, but replace the actual
source tarball with the latest available.) In this instance the
modifications to the SPEC file were minor, but one patch also had to be
modified. So, again, not trivial, you need to know a bit about SPEC
files and patching, but it did build.

I should add that for other packages this approach hasn't been too good!
The differences between code versions can mean that a lot of patches in
the RPM either become redundant or need modifying. It can add up to a
lot of work.





John.

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