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

[Pierre Casenove]

Hello,
On my setup, the RPM are on a NFS share, so no problems!
I would need to install a RHEL 6 server, install Spacewalk on it and
restore the DB.
I'm don't think that this is documented on the wiki. Do I need to create
users before restoring and so on.

Pierre


2013/3/25 Cliff Perry <cperry at redhat.com>

> On 25/03/13 15:41, Pierre Casenove wrote:
>
>> 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
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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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> So,
> 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 :)
>
> 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].
>
> Overview in general terms, is:
>  - Assuming no upgrade of Spacewalk, just moving from EL5 to EL6
>  - Backup the files on disk (RPMs), config files, RPM's, database.
>  - Install (or re-install system) EL6
>  - Install Spacewalk 1.9
>  - Restore database files, files on disk (RPMs).
>  - Review old/new config files for differences (restore individual
> settings)
>  - Run!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I appreciate feedback so far as it will help as we plan ahead.
>
> Regards,
> Cliff
>
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