[Freeipa-devel] Announcing FreeIPA 4.1.4

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>On 03/27/2015 10:22 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:48:20AM +0200, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>>
>>>For Fedora there is updates-testing repository that fits the goal
>>>of testing before applying to the actual deployment if you have any
>>>(I do
>>
>>The problem is, the 4.1.4 bits are not even in updates-testing yet:
>>
>>http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/21/x86_64/f/
>>
>> So we did not really provide the release on Fedora 21 to the
>>community.
>>
>
>There is always a question whether an upstream release announcement 
>should wait for downstream release. I could see arguments for both 
>answers.
>
>But we clearly stated:
>>It can be downloaded from http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads. The
>>builds will be available for Fedora 21. Builds for Fedora 20 are
>>available in the official COPR repository
>><https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mkosek/freeipa/>.
>
>1) "It can be downloaded from http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads"
>  True, the tarball is there
>2) "The builds will be available for Fedora 21."
>  True (they are not yet, but WILL BE)
>3) "Builds for Fedora 20 are available in the official COPR repository"
>  True, although there was the issues with missing slapi-nis build 
>which should be resolved now
Yep. And Fedora infrastructure was under heavy hammer last week or so
which caused overall delay in processing updates for all repositories.
This is not something that happens every time so I think Jan's
complaints are far from being fair.

We considered yesterday with Petr to wait until packages will be pushed
but decided to give a go due to CVE. Packages are built and available,
an upgrade on Fedora can be done with the help of koji tool if need to
fix your deployment is high. If we would have kept announcements until
Fedora have solved their issues, we would do unfair service to our
users.

Using COPR as a solution here is wrong, though. I know, I had one user
who took my OTP COPR test repo bits and used them in production for about a
year even long after packages were pushed out to Fedora proper. 
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy