[Freeipa-users] 4.2 Packages for RHEL/CentOS 7.1

[Baird, Josh]

RHEL 7.2 went GA today.  

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Christopher Young <mexigabacho at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I recall that original message about the packaging before RHEL 7.2 and
> how few of us expressed interest.  I believe I did respond to the
> positive that I could use these packages, but I certainly understand
> additional effort.  I just hate to be waiting on RH's cycle to get
> updates to one of the pieces of my infrastructure where features are
> in-demand and getting added more often.  I prefer my base server OS's
> to stay as stable as possible, but FreeIPA is an exception for me.  In
> any case, I appreciate the effort and the response.
> 
> Just so that I'm clear, this basically means that we should wait until
> the RHEL 7.2 release (and the following CentOS 7.2 release) before
> this will generally available?  I want to make sure I pay attention to
> that as it gets released.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Christopher Young wrote:
>>> 
>>> Do we know what the status of getting these packages prepped and into the
>>> mainstream repos (like EPEL, I suppose)?
>>> 
>>> I'm just curious as I try and keep my repos minimal on servers (for
>>> obvious
>>> reasons), but I would really like to begin testing/using the functionality
>>> in 4.2.
>> 
>> I believe EPEL's policy prevents you from packaging software which
>> exists in RHEL proper. FreeIPA 4.2 is coming with RHEL 7.2, it is
>> already published as part of RHEL 7.2 beta in September.
>> 
>> I want to remind  that during this summer I ran few queries here
>> (freeipa-users@) and elsewhere to solicit opinions whether people want
>> to have FreeIPA 4.2 packages available for CentOS before RHEL 7.2
>> release. Very few responses came back and there wasn't any convincing
>> feedback that would have justified additional effort to make the
>> repository and maintenance reasonable.
>> 
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2015-July/msg00243.html
>> 
>> --
>> / Alexander Bokovoy
> 
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