[Spacewalk-list] Updating Spacewalk Server from RHEL5 to RHEL6

[Boyd, Robert]

I'm in the early stages of setting up Spacewalk on a RHEL5 server.  The installation was started by someone else before 1.7 came out so they decided to hold of on RHEL6.   Most of the environment here is running RHEL5 and we only have 1 or 2 test servers running RHEL6.   I'm wondering how complicated it's likely to be to upgrade the server to RHEL6.   I just found out this morning that RHEL6.3 was released recently, so I'm thinking I might be better off to bite the bullet before I get a bunch of servers registered into the system.   Have you gone through an OS upgrade on your server?  What are the essential steps?   I have mrepo and Spacewalk running on the same server currently.   What would I need to do to make the upgrade as smooth as possible without completely re-inventing the server from scratch?   I know it's possible to do a database backup and restore it after upgrading.  I looked at the wiki page for doing a spacewalk 1.6->1.7 upgrade.   It looks like some of the pieces might be pulled from that procedure.    Is there a Red Hat guide for upgrading the server hosting Satellite Server?   That would presumably be pretty similar to what I'd need to do.

Thanks for any thoughts you're willing to share about this.   If there's already a guide written for this great!  If not, maybe now is the time to add one to the wiki?  And I'd be willing to help write and verify it.

Thanks,
Robert

Robert Boyd
Senior Systems Engineer


robert.boyd at peoplefluent.com<mailto:michael.dileonardo at peoplefluent.com>

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