[SSSD] [PATCH] Handle compiling FQDN regular expression with old pcre gracefully

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Nov 21 13:24:13 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:42:41AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Tue 20 Nov 2012 05:27:56 PM EST, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> >Two users have asked for the option to run the 1.9 series on RHEL5
> >recently.
> >
> >I haven't tested further than a simple log in as an IPA user with this
> >patch on F-17 and RHEL5. I don't think we should be spending much more
> >time on RHEL5 frankly.
> >
> >https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1661
> 
> 
> Patch looks fine to me. Ack.
> 
> As far as RHEL 5 support, I'd like to see us maintain compatibility
> with it for the lifetime of 1.9.x at least (since we're pretty much
> there anyway). Perhaps now would be a good time to decide that SSSD
> 1.10 and later will formally drop support for RHEL 5 (unless a
> third-party contributor decides to own and maintain it).

I agree. I'll send an e-mail to the appropriate lists to see how much of
an interest there is. Maintaining RHEL5 support would probably only amount
to adding ifdefs, not too hard..



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