Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

It's taken a while, but I finally have everything building on the OpenSUSE
build service for the currently supported platforms as well as the planned
SLES and OpenSUSE variants.

The root of the repository tree is here:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security://shibboleth/

This is all now public, but not officially supported yet until such time as
I decide whether to cut over to these packages now, or wait for the next
release. Once I update all the docs and links, that's when they would be
considered official. Feedback on that question is welcome. My concern is
with outstanding links to the old packages.

I can say that the plan at least is for all subsequent RPMs to come from
there, so whenever the next set is needed, the cutover won't be any later
than that.

These repositories are all yum-compatible, and you can install the
security:shibboleth.repo definition into your yum config in order to add
these packages to your package list.
 
The packages are also now signed only by the build service, not by me. That
key has been added to the KEYS file on the Shibboleth download site.

I would welcome any testing of these packages before any go-live decision is
made. They are versioned well past anything I've published, the build
service bumps the release number constantly. So they should all upgrade any
official releases from me.

Note that I have no idea why they have separate CentOS and RH repositories,
and any differeces in the 5.x packages there should be cosmetic at best. The
RHEL_4 packages should work fine on CentOS 4, but I didn't see any reason
not to let it generate the separate 5.x builds.

Also, I have no plans to produce Shibboleth 1.x packages this way. Those
will stay manually produced (if another set is required before June), and I
won't officially support SUSE there.
 
-- Scott