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

[Martin Kosek]

On 11/20/2015 04:10 AM, Baird, Josh wrote:
> RHEL 7.2 went GA today.

Surprise! I posted more information to new thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2015-November/msg00309.html

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>> 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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