Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> so -- just to confirm my understanding -- we could simplify the text 
> in this linux section, to align with Derek's cookbook, and we  should 
> be ok....

Yes, we just need to be careful in separating stuff relating to the
binaries and stuff relating to the source.

When we talk about minimum versions for things, that's really a source
issue. The binaries really aren't guaranteed to work with anything they
weren't linked with. The reason is that a lot of open source projects
don't understand or use shared library versioning. They don't know when
to rev their library versions, so they either do it too often or not
enough.

> now, on to Solaris.... I suggested to  Nate that he include text 
> telling sites to install these specific versions ... anything else to 
> add to  this list?

The Apache package is only needed if the site isn't already using it. It
makes it a little easier to start, but it's not mandatory, as long as
the version used is the same. The advice about mod_ssl and so forth is
still valid. I built with EAPI defined.

-- Scott

PS. I have a script that shows how to build everything from source on
both OS's. Should we incorporate that somehow, or just put it somewhere
for reference if people want to see it?

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