RedHat is deprecating FreeRADIUS for ISPs

Matthew Newton mcn at freeradius.org
Wed Nov 5 15:59:20 UTC 2025


On 05/11/2025 15:50, BuzzSaw Code wrote:
> For the packages you guys build, specifically for the RPMs, can we get the
> src rpm provided ?  I've built the RPMs from the Git sources a few times
> but it would be easier for our own internal automation if we had the src
> RPMs available.

We don't have SRPMs. The packages are built from the source tarball with 
`make rpm`. There are rules to copy all the required files into the 
required RedHat build directories and run rpmbuild to build the RPMs.

> We had been using the ones provided by RedHat for a while but they lag so
> far behind on releases it wasn't feasible to keep doing that.

Yeah, that's been an issue with distributions for years.

-- 
Matthew



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