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

[Pierre Casenove]

Hello,
My spacewalk production server is only 2 years old. The upgrade patch
implies to reintall from scratch and restore the postgresql dump. So I
would need to buy a new server. I would probably get stuck on version 1.9
for a while if it was the last release for el5.

And of course, we need to keep el5 client support!

Pierre


2013/3/25 Lasher, Eric A <eric.lasher at unmc.edu>

> 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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