[Spacewalk-list] Migrating from 2.7 to 2.9

[Michael Mraka]

Paul Greene:
> I probably jumped the gun on the slow response rate of the remote tasks I'd
> scheduled - they eventually did kick in
> 
> But, if anyone has some input on whether or not there's likely to be an
> issue because I didn't update the clients, I'd eagerly appreciate some
> feedback.
...
> > Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I'm wondering if not updating any of the
> > client packages to 2.9 is going to cause any issues that aren't initially
> > apparent. I tried to push out some remote commands to a group of 7 systems,
> > and I usually start seeing some successful and/or failed actions within
> > maybe 15 minutes or so, but it's been about an hour and a half now and
> > there hasn't been any movement yet on the remote tasks.
> >
> > Can anyone think of any potential issues I might be running in to taking
> > this route?

Generally Spacewalk server and clients of different version are compatible.
If not clients would complain in the log (during each rhn_check).
AFAIK there were no API change since 2.7.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat