[Pkg-freeipa-devel] freeipa-server backport to Jessie?

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi Timo,

On 04/14/15 07:41, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 13.04.2015 20:49, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> Hi Harald,
>>
>> On 13-04-15 11:44, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>>> would it be reasonable to hope for a backport of freeipa-\
>>> server to Jessie?
>>
>> I may have missed something, but I don't think we have started the
>> Jessie backports yet. Or do you mean something else?
> 
> Server backport isn't too useful before replicas work, and that needs
> libldap built against nss. Until that you're limited to single-server
> setups.
> 

Of course I recognized that freeipa has a pretty huge list
of versioned dependencies. Is there something that would be
too difficult to backport to Jessie?

I really would like to avoid choosing another Linux distro
for such a major infrastructure component.


Regards
Harri