[Fedora-directory-users] RPM/SRPM issues and old RHEL

[Richard Megginson]

Oliver Hookins wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get started testing out Fedora Directory Server with the 
> goal of replacing our OpenLDAP infrastructure. Most of our servers are 
> RHEL3/4 so there are no big issues there since there are already 
> prepackaged binary RPMS for those platforms.
>
> But we do have two RHEL2.1 server which we will definitely need 
> packages for in order to do any migration to FDS. Upgrading these 
> servers to RHEL3/4 is not an option. Looking at the spec file of the 
> SRPM from RHEL3 it seems like dependencies won't be a problem, the 
> spec file itself is a mess and doesn't come close to building 
> everything (which I understand is a work in progress).
>
> So my questions are: has anyone got FDS running well on RHEL2.1 
> (either by compiling directly from source, shoehorning the RPM from 
> RHEL3 or building the RPM from the SRPM)? Has anyone written their own 
> spec file from scratch to build FDS in its entirety from sources? I 
> also wanted to change the installation prefix from /opt so getting a 
> working and complete spec file would be very desirable.
It's going to be a few weeks until we have a buildable srpm.  In the 
meantime, I suggest you try 
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Building#One-Step_Build
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