[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA 4.0.0 and CentOS release 6.5

Petr Spacek pspacek at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 17:07:57 UTC 2014


On 24.7.2014 18:26, Chris Whittle wrote:
> Would CentOS7 work with FreeIPA 4?

In theory - it could work. However you will have to build few new packages, 
including 389 DS, Kerberos libs, Dogtag CA and bind-dyndb-ldap.

I'm attaching SPEC file diff from 3.3.3 to 4.0.0 so you can see what new 
packages it requires.

Please let us know if it works for you.

Petr^2 Spacek

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Chris Whittle wrote:
>>> Is it possible, I've looked around and most everyone says the
>>> dependancies are too much outside of what it has.
>>
>> Not without building a whole ton of your own packages. And we're not
>> talking simple, little packages. These would be significant upgrades for
>> which you'd have to manage your own security and bug fixing, forever.
>>
>> On top of that, it is doubtful it has been tested in a sysV init
>> environment. It may work as the previous support is still there, but
>> it's a grey area for sure.
>>
>>> I'm about to implement FreeIPA across the CO and would rather do the big
>>> upgrade first and not after.
>>
>> One of our larger users was in a similar situation a few years ago and
>> ended up running Fedora until RHEL caught up and then migrating the
>> servers.
>>
>> Another option is to use IPA 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 7, depending on what
>> features you need.
>>
>> rob
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