RedHat is deprecating FreeRADIUS for ISPs

[BuzzSaw Code]

>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've used that process as well to create rpms as part of our automation.

My request was that the src rpm that results from your building of the
official built rpms gets posted as well - unless you are disabling the
creation of that.

If that's not possible then that's fine, we'll keep building everything
from source as well.






On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM Matthew Newton via Freeradius-Users <
freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Matthew
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