Bug 2039709

Summary:	freeradius-client for EPEL 9
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Xavier Bachelot <xavier>
Component:	freeradius-client	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Xavier Bachelot 2022-01-12 09:28:52 UTC

Hi,

Could you please branch and build freeradius-client for EPEL 9 ?

Regards,
Xavier

Comment 1 Igor Raits 2022-01-22 13:52:33 UTC

ping

Comment 2 Xavier Bachelot 2022-01-24 14:59:51 UTC

My understanding is freeradius-client is unmaintained and has been forked as radcli. I'll may request an EPEL 9 branch for radcli once I'll get nagios-plugins to build against radcli rather than freeradius-client.

Comment 3 Peter Lemenkov 2026-03-04 10:53:00 UTC

I unfortunately don't have the bandwidth to maintain freeradius-client in EPEL 9. However, I can grant access to an EPEL maintainer who's willing to step in. If you're interested, please let me know and I'll add you in Pagure.

Comment 4 Peter Lemenkov 2026-03-26 13:05:35 UTC

The functionality this package was intended to provide is already available through `radcli`, which is shipped in the base RHEL/CentOS repos for EL8, EL9, and EL10. `radcli` is a source-compatible fork of freeradius-client and should work as a drop-in replacement with minimal or no changes.

The original motivation for this request was to enable `nagios-plugins-radius` on EPEL 9 (BZ#2030297). nagios-plugins currently disables the radius plugin on EL9+ due to the absence of freeradius-client. Since `radcli` is already in the base OS and is API-compatible, adapting nagios-plugins to build against `radcli` instead would be a straightforward way to restore this functionality without adding freeradius-client to EPEL.