<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div style>On my setup, the RPM are on a NFS share, so no problems!</div><div style>I would need to install a RHEL 6 server, install Spacewalk on it and restore the DB.</div><div style>I'm don't think that this is documented on the wiki. Do I need to create users before restoring and so on.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Pierre</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/3/25 Cliff Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cperry@redhat.com" target="_blank">cperry@redhat.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 25/03/13 15:41, Pierre Casenove wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
My spacewalk production server is only 2 years old. The upgrade patch<br>
implies to reintall from scratch and restore the postgresql dump. So I<br>
would need to buy a new server. I would probably get stuck on version<br>
1.9 for a while if it was the last release for el5.<br>
<br>
And of course, we need to keep el5 client support!<br>
<br>
Pierre<br>
<br>
<br>
2013/3/25 Lasher, Eric A <<a href="mailto:eric.lasher@unmc.edu" target="_blank">eric.lasher@unmc.edu</a><br></div>
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<br>
It's pretty critical we still support el5 clients... I'm assuming<br>
this is only the server side?<br>
<br>
On Mar 25, 2013, at 10:29 AM, "richard rigby" <<a href="mailto:r.rigby@leeds.ac.uk" target="_blank">r.rigby@leeds.ac.uk</a><br></div><div><div class="h5">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:r.rigby@leeds.ac.uk" target="_blank">r.rigby@leeds.ac.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On 25/03/13 14:57, Cliff Perry wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi folks,<br>
>> today we provide Spacewalk releases on EL5, EL6, and current Fedora<br>
>> versions. Due to the increasing differences of EL5 vs. the<br>
newest OSes,<br>
>> we are seriously considering not releasing Spacewalk on EL5 anymore,<br>
>> since it hinders our ability to do some other forward-looking<br>
changes we<br>
>> would like to do.<br>
>><br>
>> If we make the current Spacewalk 1.9 the last release on EL5, will<br>
>> Spacewalk users find it hard to migrate to EL6?<br>
>><br>
>> Feedback is appreciated and will be taken into consideration for how<br>
>> quickly we make this change.<br>
><br>
> is this just talking about the server side, rather than clients?<br>
><br>
> currently running spacewalk server on el5/32 bit (making use of<br>
old hardware), and all works well.<br>
><br>
> if 1.9 were to be the last el5 release, it wouldn't be too much<br>
of a pain - we would just stick on this version until able to<br>
migrate the server to el6/64, which we should be able to do without<br>
too much trouble, though we may get a release or two behind before<br>
we have time to do the upgrade. again, not really a worry.<br>
><br>
> as for client side, we will have some (quite a few) el5 clients<br>
for a while yet, so it would be nice if these could continue to be<br>
managed by spacewalk.<br>
><br>
> hope that's of some use.<br>
><br>
> thanks,<br>
><br>
> richard<br>
><br>
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So,<br>
yes, we will continue to EL5 clients to Spacewalk. I made a mistake in not stating that, even though it was not the topic of my email :)<br>
<br>
As for an upgrade path, the general process for switching from EL5 to EL6, would be to restore the database onto a EL6 based Spacewalk server and the clients will continue to work. I do not know if we document this process too well today [which this thread is high lighting].<br>
<br>
Overview in general terms, is:<br>
- Assuming no upgrade of Spacewalk, just moving from EL5 to EL6<br>
- Backup the files on disk (RPMs), config files, RPM's, database.<br>
- Install (or re-install system) EL6<br>
- Install Spacewalk 1.9<br>
- Restore database files, files on disk (RPMs).<br>
- Review old/new config files for differences (restore individual settings)<br>
- Run!<br>
<br>
Warning/note - this is not something I have personally tested recently for Spacewalk, which is why my reply it is lacking specific details, but to acknowledge it can be done and give a pointer in the right direction.<br>
<br>
You can combine an upgrade of Spacewalk, with switching of OS at the same time, but that just adds another layer of changes to track.<br>
<br>
I appreciate feedback so far as it will help as we plan ahead.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Cliff<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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