[Spacewalk-list] Compatibility of 2.1 server with 2.0 clients

[Dan]

Thanks a lot for your reply Milan.
I will try this configuration.
Regards,
Dan



On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 June 2014 12:10:57 Dan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We're deploying a new Spacewalk setup and we are planning to use v2.1 (we
> > could use 2.0 if needed).
> >
> > The issue is that our clients are Fedora 18 based for which we haven't
> > found packaged v2.1 spacewalk client (see reference [1]) so we're using
> > v2.0 (see [2]).
> >
> > I have made a test connecting v2.0 clients to v2.1 server and it seems to
> > work, but I wonder if this type of configurations are officially
> supported.
> >
> > Does anyone knows about official support / any issues / caveats of this
> > type configuration?
> > Would it be advisable to use server 2.0 instead?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dan
> >
> > Sources:
> > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
> > [2] https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients20
>
> I'd say it's okay to use client packages from 2.0 repo with 2.1 server.
> There
> weren't that many changes between 2.0 and 2.1, so this scenario should
> work in general.
>
> As far as support goes -- should you find any problems in your setup, we
> most
> likely won't be building new packages for Fedora 18 and the 2.0 repo with
> the fix. Though you can always re-build the 2.1 client packages from source
> rpms for Fedora 18 yourself and use those builds instead.
>
> -MZ
>
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