[Freeipa-users] Installing on CentOS 5.X?

[Dmitri Pal]

On 04/13/2011 04:18 PM, Gavin McQuillan wrote:
> I did manage to get the 1.0.0 version compiled and running on CentOS
> 5.6, using the aforementioned spec file mucking. 
>
> But the suggested course would be to wait for CentOS 6.X, change to
> RHEL 6, or is Fedora really the only distribution still being targeted?

Red Hat will prvide a tech preview version in 6.1 and fully supported in
6.2.
You can try beta bits now, they are already available for several weeks.

>
> Cheers, 
> -Gavin
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Doug Chapman <prjctgeek at gmail.com
> <mailto:prjctgeek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Recent builds, no.
>
>     FreeIPA 1.2 will build on Centos5 with some work (as in mucking
>     with spec files).  We're using the 389-ds (1.2.4) package from Fedora.
>
>     At this juncture I would not invest the time to get this working
>     on Centos5.
>
>     On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Gavin McQuillan
>     <gavin at urbanairship.com <mailto:gavin at urbanairship.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         We're moving to a vendor which only supports servers with
>         CentOS or RHEL. 
>
>         I see a 2 1/2 year old document for building SRC RPMs to get
>         an older version of ipa-server
>         running: http://howtoforge.com/how-to-build-rhel-ipa-rpms-for-centos-5.
>         However there are problems with it.
>
>         - It's missing several steps and/or or the package names have
>         changed since 5.2.
>         - Some people hint that 'centos-ds' located in the testing
>         should serve the same purpose, but it looks like it only
>         supports basic LDAP administration.
>         - Naturally, this repo config doesn't
>         work: http://freeipa.org/downloads/freeipa-devel.repo
>
>         Has anybody in the community successfully gotten a relatively
>         recent version of FreeIPA installed on CentOS 5.X?
>
>         Thanks in advance, 
>         -Gavin
>
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>     Doug Chapman
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
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