This one time, at band camp, Josip Rodin said: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Package: freeradius > > Version: 1.1.3-3 > > > > It's currently impossible to get the RADIUS client software from the > > FreeRADIUS distribution without getting the server, which opens a network > > port, which is obviously bad for security when you just wanted a client, > > and if you disable the server you have to maintain a heap of needless > > software on the system and a conffile change, yadda yadda yadda. > > It's just wrong (against the spirit of the packaging system and the practice > > of every other client-server software package in Debian). > > > > The following binaries should be in a package called freeradius-client or > > something like that: > > > > /usr/bin/radclient > > /usr/bin/radeapclient > > /usr/bin/radtest > > > > They are all generic RADIUS client software that doesn't depend on > > a FreeRADIUS server in particular, and they don't depend on a RADIUS server > > on localhost either. > > I think I see the reason why they were kept inside the same package: > > libradius-1.1.7.so => /usr/lib/freeradius/libradius-1.1.7.so > (0x00002b2b3ea9d000) > > Ugh. This would usually go into a libradius-1.1.7 package, but because > this is a just a shared object file (rather than a proper shared library), > you can put it into something like freeradius-common, and keep a strict > dependency on it.
I was thinking of an arch all -common, an arch any -utils, a library package, and a server package. But yes, the dependencies need to be strict. > Also, radclient needs the dictionary files, so /etc/freeradius/dictionary > and /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary* should go in the common package too. This is being worked on for the 2.x packages now. Amusingly, for built libraries we now get: libfreeradius-radius-2.0.3.la libfreeradius-radius-2.0.3.so libfreeradius-radius.a libfreeradius-radius.la libfreeradius-radius.so Even better, really. Ugh, indeed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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