Jakub Hrozek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:47:52PM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote: >> many new features rely on library APIs and features that are only available >> in recent versions of SSSD dependencies. As a result, the code often needs >> #ifdefs and special branches in order to at least compile or run on RHEL5. >> >> So far we've been doing nightly builds also for RHEL5 and fixing issues >> as we were finding them. But recently we are considering dropping support >> for RHEL5 -- it is causing some engineering effort and at the same time >> the audience is probably very limited. If you are running super-stable >> enterprise distribution, chances are you are not all that interested in >> the latest and possibly very unstable SSSD version. >> >> The proposal would be to keep building and supporting the 1.9.x branch >> for RHEL5 and switch to using RHEL6 as the oldest supported release >> starting from the 1.10 upstream version. Of course we would still accept >> patches from any potential contributors. >> >> Any objections against the plan? > > I'm about to discontinue RHEL5 builds of master/1.10 unless there is > an objection. > > The recent changes in the 1.10/master branch make it harder and harder to > support such an old platform without substatial effort and I don't really > think there are many users of bleeding edge SSSD on a stable platform. > > If there are no objections I will shut down the RHEL5 nightly builds > of the master branch tomorrow.
I understand that you want to get rid of the additional effort. Would you be still willing to accept a feature request for 1.9.x? I'd like to use LDAP SASL/EXTERNAL bind with SSL client certs. > Our current nightly builder doesn't support building from different > branches for different "targets", so in order to build sssd-1-9 > nightlies for RHEL5, I'd have to set up another repo. Is anyone > interested in running sssd-1-9 on RHEL5? If so, then I could set up a > new repo, probably on repos.fedorapeople.org or someplace similar. My customer is definitely stuck to still using RHEL5 for a while but we plan to use 1.9.5+ on that platform. Ciao, Mcihael.
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