[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA 4.0.0 and CentOS release 6.5

Chris Whittle cwhittl at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 16:26:34 UTC 2014


Would CentOS7 work with FreeIPA 4?


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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