Installing from RPM with Samba4

[Norman Elton]

Hi,

First, apologies for what is more a RPM/YUM problem than a FreeRADIUS problem.

I've been using the RedHat-supplied RPMs for many years on our RHEL6
servers, but am trying to move toward networkradius-supplied packages,
in order to keep up to date with more recent FreeRADIUS releases.

We currently have the samba4 packages installed:

# rpm -qa | grep samba
samba4-winbind-clients-4.2.10-15.el6.x86_64
samba4-libs-4.2.10-15.el6.x86_64
samba4-winbind-4.2.10-15.el6.x86_64
samba4-common-4.2.10-15.el6.x86_64
samba4-4.2.10-15.el6.x86_64

The samba4-libs package provides /usr/lib64/samba/libwbclient.so.0.

When I try to install the newer version of FreeRADIUS, it's not happy
with this dependency, and tries to install samba-winbind-clients,
resulting in a conflict:

--> Processing Dependency: libwbclient.so.0()(64bit) for package:
freeradius-3.0.17-2.el6.x86_64
---> Package samba-winbind-clients.x86_64 0:3.6.23-51.el6 will be installed
Error: samba4-common conflicts with samba-common-3.6.23-51.el6.x86_64

Looking at the specfile on github, I see this nugget:

%{?el7:Requires: libwbclient}
%{?el6:Requires: samba4-libs}
%{?el6:Requires: samba4-winbind-clients}

Since I'm RHEL6, I'm not sure where the libwbclient dependency is coming from.

Using repoquery, I can show the requirements of freeradius:

# repoquery --requires freeradius | grep libwbclient
libwbclient.so.0()(64bit)
libwbclient.so.0(WBCLIENT_0.12)(64bit)
libwbclient.so.0(WBCLIENT_0.9)(64bit)

And what samba4-libs provides:

# repoquery --provides samba4-libs | grep libwbclient
libwbclient.so.0(SAMBA_4.2.10)(64bit)
libwbclient.so.0(WBCLIENT_0.10)(64bit)
libwbclient.so.0(WBCLIENT_0.11)(64bit)
libwbclient.so.0(WBCLIENT_0.12)(64bit)
libwbclient.so.0(WBCLIENT_0.9)(64bit)

They're not quite the same, and I'm not sure what the part inside the
parentheses actually does.

All that said ... any ideas how to install FreeRADIUS alongside samba4?

Thanks

Norman