On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:29:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > its just shameful that no distros feel like updating their > default version from 1.1.dinosaur to 2.0.recent
IIRC, you were talking about CentOS (== RHEL rebuild). One of the fundamental issues with enterprise-grade (and long-term-supported) Linux distros is that they want to stay as compatible as possible during its life-time. If possible, they backport security fixes, etc. Although sometimes I would also like to have a newer version of something, this *does* pay back in overall stability and API/ABI compatibility throughout the OS's life time. Otherwise you should use Fedora (the fast-moving alternative for RHEL/CentOS). And if you really do need newer packages on CentOS, take the latest Fedora source RPM and rebuild it on RHEL/CentOS. That is usually "integrated" in the OS environment in the same way as RHEL/CentOS (but always be careful and inspect the spec file carefully for new things). For the same reason, I'm still using a (very) old FreeRADIUS on my RHEL4-compatible systems, although I've been flamed for doing that on this list earlier ;-). -- -- Jos Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
