[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 15.01.2015 11:54, Petr Spacek wrote:
> On 15.1.2015 09:36, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>>>>>> Hi List
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please is it really possible to have Debian and Ubuntu serve as IPA clients?
>>>>>> I've tried some instructions/guidelines on the list and they always fail
>>>>>> with the IPA client install being halfway completed and sssd's
>>>>>> configuration file moved to .deleted.
>>>>>> I'm really interested in getting this to work and I'll appreciate any help
>>>>>> I can get. Failing that are there any alternatives?
>>>>
>>>> Please see http://www.freeipa.org/page/Troubleshooting#Client_Installation
>>>>
>>>> If it does not help then please post more information about your problem, namely:
>>>> - exact package versions (keep in mind that "Wheezy" is a moving target)
>> What do you mean by moving target?
>>
>> wheezy is codename for the latest release is Debian 7.8. It is also (currently)
>> known as stable
> 
> Sure, but Debian allows packages updates after release - or not?

no new upstream releases, unless via $release-backports

> I mean that "Debian Wheezy" does not necessarily identify particular package
> version.

..so it does, in practise.


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