[389-users] Centos 6?

[Rich Megginson]

On 07/29/2011 03:49 PM, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Leo Pleiman<lpleiman at salsalabs.com>  wrote:
>
>> Rumor has it there has been a mass exodus from Centos and the ports may be
>> a little behind. You might want to look at Scientific Linux.
> I just tried SL 6.1.  I did a 'basic server' clean install.
>
> The epel-389-ds-base repo (as recommended here
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Download ) contains a URL
> which doesn't work (it's based off of $releasever, which on SL 6.1
> is...6.1, not "6"!  RHEL 6.1 has been out since May, it'd be nice if
> this was fixed.)
Fixed.
> The URL in the file also isn't correct for the testing repo; it's
> trying to access:
>
> /repos/rmeggins/389-ds-base/testing/epel-6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
>
> ...and the correct URL, based on browsing the site in question, is:
>
> /repos/rmeggins/389-ds-base/epel-6/testing/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
Fixed.
> Amazingly, finally, it all seems to have installed.
EL6 support is . . . tricky.  We will not provide support for 6.0 - too 
many missing dependencies.  With RHEL6.1, since the 389-ds-base package 
is provided by the base OS, we cannot provide them via EPEL, hence the 
use of the private developer repo at fedorapeople.org.  The other 
"problem" with EL6 is that the 389-ds-base package is not the full 
package - it is missing the replication and windows sync bits (hence the 
problem with the missing repl-monitor.pl).  You have to pay extra for 
the ds-replication package in RHEL6 - right now it is available as a 
"tech preview" from your local sales rep.  The 389-ds-base package from 
fedorapeople.org does have the replication bits.

So, to summarize, if you want the full 389 ds/admin/console on EL6:
1) you must use EL 6.1 or later
2) you must use 389-ds-base from the fedorapeople.org repo
3) you must use EPEL6 for the other packages
> -B