CentOS 8 packages missing winbind support?

[Josef Vybíhal]

That's really unfortunate and breaks convenience of 'dnf update' - I really
hope that RedHat is not going to be IBM-like.
Thanks a lot for digging guys, really appreciate it.

P.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:53 AM Nathan Ward <lists+freeradius at daork.net>
wrote:

>
> > On 24/04/2020, at 8:27 AM, Matthew Newton <mcn at freeradius.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/04/2020 17:15, Josef Vybíhal wrote:
> >> Packages for CentOS 8 at https://networkradius.com/freeradius-packages/
> appear
> >> to be compiled without winbind support. Is there a reason for that?
> CentOS
> >> 7 package have it - not sure about other distros.
> > RedHat removed the samba-devel package from RHEL8, so we're missing the
> headers we need to build.
> >
> > I've not had any success yet finding out if they moved the headers into
> a different package, doesn't look like it from what I can see so far.
>
> This piqued my curiosity so did some digging.
>
> I’ve asked some questions and am told that RH aren’t currently shipping a
> bunch of -devel packages “for good supportability and/or security reasons
> that we can't mitigate (I.e broken vendor implementations / orphaned
> upstream)”.
>
> Not sure exactly why Samba has been excluded.
>
> It’s still in the Samba spec file, at least on the CentOS git server. You
> could build the RPM from the SRPM and get a -devel package out, and install
> it from there.
>
> Not ideal, but that’s how it goes.
>
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