[Freeipa-devel] [SSSD] Announcing SSSD 1.8.0 beta 1

[Jeff Schroeder]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:31:04PM -0800, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > The SSSD is proud to announce the release of the first beta of SSSD
>> > 1.8.0, destined to become our next long-term maintenance (LTM) release.
>>
>> What are the minimum requirements for those of us who want to run it
>> on an older Fedora or RHEL? Anything different or new?
>>
>
> Define older :)

Fedora 10 & Fedora 14 :)

 There are two problems on RHEL5 I'm aware of:
>  * 1.8beta does not compile on RHEL5 due to a bug in a patch that was
>   pushed just before the release. We are working on fixing that
>  * 1.8 is going to use a different DocBook stylesheet that does not
>   exist on RHEL5 to support conditional elements. This is handy for skipping
>   elements that document disabled features.  If you generated the manual
>   pages with these old stylesheets, the man pages would include options
>   for all features, including experimental even if they were not built in.
>
> There should be no problems on RHEL6 and similar aged distributions.
>
> Obviously you might not be able to test some of the experimental
> features that integrate with 3rd party applications unless you have the
> right version of autofs or sudo.

Not an autofs user and sudo is cake to backport. We already run a
backported version of sudo to fix some issues with env_keep that were
fixed upstream.

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