building ssd-1.8.0 on RHEL6

[Moritz Baumann]

Hi there,
ist it safe to pick the rawhide sssd-1.8.0-6.fc18.src.rpm,

change ldb_version to

        %global ldb_version 0.9.10

and fix the

RPM build errors:
    File must begin with "/": %{_unitdir}/sssd.service


Or do I have to build the newer ldb version (1.1.4)?

We are running in timeout problems with sssd lookups and would like to
test the new sssd version to see if this improoves things.

Or is there somewhere an official sssd-1.8.0 in some fasttrack channel?

Best,
Moritz Baumann

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 15:35 +0100, Moritz Baumann wrote:
>  Hi there,
>  ist it safe to pick the rawhide sssd-1.8.0-6.fc18.src.rpm,
>  
>  change ldb_version to
>  
>          %global ldb_version 0.9.10
>  
>  and fix the
>  
>  RPM build errors:
>      File must begin with "/": %{_unitdir}/sssd.service
>  
>  
>  Or do I have to build the newer ldb version (1.1.4)?
>  
>  We are running in timeout problems with sssd lookups and would like to
>  test the new sssd version to see if this improoves things.
>  
>  Or is there somewhere an official sssd-1.8.0 in some fasttrack channel? 

SSSD 1.8.x is targeted for inclusion into RHEL 6.3 and will become
available when the RHEL 6.3 beta is released.

Additionally, you could also choose to install from the ipa-devel repo
by dropping
http://jdennis.fedorapeople.org/ipa-devel/ipa-devel-rhel.repo into
your /etc/yum.repos.d directory. This contains the latest builds from
git. Right now it's pointed at the sssd-1-8 branch (which will be
releasing SSSD 1.8.1 either today or tomorrow), but at some point within
the next week we'll be switching it back to the master branch for
unstable development.

If you wanted to try out 1.8.x on RHEL 6 right this minute though,
that's probably the easiest way. Otherwise, I recommend waiting for the
RHEL 6.3 beta.