Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 01/26/11 5:51 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net mailto:bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
As per the Redhat Virtualisation Expo yesterday... API/ABI compatibility is maintained within the point releases. If your stuff is certified on 5.4 it will run on 5.5/5.6. In addition there are compatibility libraries to get anything running on 5.X on 6.0... and when you move to 6.0 then anything

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:16 AM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: As per the Redhat Virtualisation Expo yesterday... API/ABI compatibility is maintained within the point releases. If your stuff is certified on 5.4 it will run on 5.5/5.6. In addition there are compatibility

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
This... is theory. In practice, major architectural changes will break things and need to be tested. For example, the anaconda environment for RHEL 6 does not contain the dirname command. The environment for RHEL 5 did. I anticipate that CentOS 6 will also lack it. Who would know that

[CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Mitch Patenaude
We're running a large cluster, and are leery of upgrading them all to 5.5, but would like to find the latest security patches. Is there a repo for this? I can't seem to find a 5.4 specific update repo with anything since last March. Is 5.4 EOL'd? Thanks, -- Mitch

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/26/11 5:35 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: We're running a large cluster, and are leery of upgrading them all to 5.5, but would like to find the latest security patches. Is there a repo for this? I can't seem to find a 5.4 specific update repo with anything since last March. Is 5.4

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Gene
Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node cluster for seismic work. Gene Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:39 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/26/11 5:35 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: We're running a large cluster, and are leery

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Mitch Patenaude
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node cluster for seismic work. 300+ nodes total, 200 in a hadoop cluster used for mapreduce, the rest in a variety of headless datacenter roles (web,

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Gene
Our application vendors dictated version an patches. The system did what it was designed. That was its purpose in life. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Mitch Patenaude mi...@rapleaf.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:51:51 -0800 Mitch Patenaude mi...@rapleaf.com wrote: without having to change versions. Upgrading to 5.6 would likely involve upgrading several core packages (mysql, ruby, python, bind, even glibc and the kernel). Is this a pipe dream? Shouldn't be. I never think of

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/26/11 5:51 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net mailto:bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node cluster for seismic work. 300+ nodes total, 200 in a

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread William Warren
On 1/26/2011 8:35 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: We're running a large cluster, and are leery of upgrading them all to 5.5, but would like to find the latest security patches. Is there a repo for this? I can't seem to find a 5.4 specific update repo with anything since last March. Is 5.4 EOL'd?