[Spacewalk-list] Running Spacewalk on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5

[Lasher, Eric A]

It's pretty critical we still support el5 clients... I'm assuming this is only the server side?

On Mar 25, 2013, at 10:29 AM, "richard rigby" <r.rigby at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 25/03/13 14:57, Cliff Perry wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> today we provide Spacewalk releases on EL5, EL6, and current Fedora
>> versions. Due to the increasing differences of EL5 vs. the newest OSes,
>> we are seriously considering not releasing Spacewalk on EL5 anymore,
>> since it hinders our ability to do some other forward-looking changes we
>> would like to do.
>> 
>> If we make the current Spacewalk 1.9 the last release on EL5, will
>> Spacewalk users find it hard to migrate to EL6?
>> 
>> Feedback is appreciated and will be taken into consideration for how
>> quickly we make this change.
> 
> is this just talking about the server side, rather than clients?
> 
> currently running spacewalk server on el5/32 bit (making use of old hardware), and all works well.
> 
> if 1.9 were to be the last el5 release, it wouldn't be too much of a pain - we would just stick on this version until able to migrate the server to el6/64, which we should be able to do without too much trouble, though we may get a release or two behind before we have time to do the upgrade. again, not really a worry.
> 
> as for client side, we will have some (quite a few) el5 clients for a while yet, so it would be nice if these could continue to be managed by spacewalk.
> 
> hope that's of some use.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> richard
> 
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