[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Initial Radius Work

[John Dennis]

Karl MacMillan wrote:
> 2) What's is get_rpm_nvr_by_name used for? So far we have no explicit
> rpm deps in the code - I would very much like to keep it that way.

When configuring a service it's used to determine the service version. 
That way if there are any config file differences which are dependent on 
the version the resulting config file generation can properly take 
account of the version differences.

To the best of my knowledge we're only requiring (via the spec file), 
certain packages be installed, or perhaps a minimum revision of a 
specific package. The ipa-server-install should be able to validate what 
its configuring and attempt to adapt to it or throw an error saying it 
encountered an unsupported version of a required service.

We aren't planning on supporting ipa-server installs on non-rpm based 
systems, right? But even if we do the version query can use the 
mechanism of the host or return None (e.g. I don't know the version).
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>