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Re: ITP: xtradius -- Free radius server implementation.



On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:27, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > You should conflict all current RADIUS servers, which are
> >
> > radius-livingston
> > yardradius
> > radius-cistron
> >
> > This is not strictly needed if you provide the same binaries 'radiusd'
> > Anyway notify me when done in order to check yardradius package
> > installation.
>
> If this is to be done by conflicting with all radius servers (rather than
> with a virtual 'radius-server' package?), might I suggest also adding
> freeradius to this list?  There is no .deb for freeradius in the archive
> yet, but given the density of Debian developers on that project I expect
> one to appear once the code stabilizes.  It would be nice if it could be
> integrated cleanly into Debian systems once that happens.

Why is it so desirable to have all the RADIUS servers conflict with each 
other?

Obviously if two packages contain a binary with the unimaginitive name of 
"radiusd" then they can't both be installed.  However if there aren't any 
binaries or configuration files conflicting then I think that installing two 
RADIUS servers at once should be possible.

Migrating from one RADIUS server to another is a pain at the best of times.  
Being forced to use a chroot environment while testing the new server makes 
it even more painful.

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