Wiki updates - Debian instructions

Matthew Newton mcn4 at leicester.ac.uk
Mon Mar 28 02:06:03 CEST 2016


Just a heads-up here as I know people often point at the Debian
building instructions on the wiki.

I've done a little reorganising. The main "Build" page has been
getting rather long, so I've separated the Debian build
instructions off into the (already existing) "Debian" page. So
Debian and Ubuntu now point there:

  http://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Build

points to

  http://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Debian

Essentially, the cluebat for "I'm using 2.1.12 on Debian" should now
be http://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Debian

The build instructions now also include mk-build-deps to
automatically install the build-deps, rather than using apt-get
build-dep, which actually installs the build-deps for the version
in the Debian repository (probably 2.1.12...) rather than
(hopefully) 3.x. And I've removed some prehistoric stuff regarding
OpenSSL from 2.1.8 or so.

I've also taken the liberty to expand that page to include
instructions on building Debian Samba packages that include the
libwbclient patches to enable direct communication with winbind.
This is required because the latest version of Samba in Debian
Jessie is still less than 4.2.1, but is now much easier than
it was with Samba 3 in Wheezy.

I've tested most combinations of building from the instructions,
but shout (or correct them) if it doesn't work for any particular
situation.

If anyone has Oracle and wants to update the section on building
with support for that then please do so. It links to a remote site
that is now five years old. I don't have a copy of Oracle (hey,
it's not free) so can't update that.

At some point I plan to add instructions for building clean
packages using sbuild as well. The current instructions are fine
for installing on the same machine it was built on, but not good
for distribution.

Cheers,

Matthew


-- 
Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <mcn4 at le.ac.uk>

Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services,
I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, <ithelp at le.ac.uk>


More information about the Freeradius-Users mailing list