Hi, > On 12. Oct 2017, at 11:31, Rudy Gevaert <rudy.geva...@ugent.be> wrote: > > Hello, > > Like many environments you end up with a lot of system that are EOL for > years. But you still need to try to support them. > > I was wondering if anybody already went down the route of building packages > for Debian Squeeze to get more recent icinga2 packages than the one in the > repo provide on packages.icinga.com
That won’t work as Debian Squeeze does not satisfy dependencies anymore, i.e. libraries, exported interfaces and such. That mainly affects their old OpenSSL version, but also other code parts which need to be compiled. The source code development process does not take care about EOL distribution versions, that is a similar thing with RHEL5 being EOL. So fi you somehow “patch” Icinga 2 to run on such ancient distributions, it might again break with a future version. Keep in mind that you won’t get any support from us here too. If Icinga 2 keeps crashing for whatever reason on Debian Squeeze with your custom built package, it not something you may open an issue or receive help. That may sound hard, but that’s a general rule with software. You can only support things where others support you too. The Debian project doesn’t support Squeeze either, so necessary security and stability fixes won’t reach your system. I’d rather invest the time and resources to plan a migration and update to a modern infrastructure. Kind regards, Michael > > Currently I would need to upgrade gcc to 4.7.X (which then requires newer > boost libraries). > > What maybe would also help is knowing which older versions of icinga2 would > now work with a icinga2 2.7.1 master agent? > > I know I'm taking a long shot, but you never know if someone already went > through the pain and has some insightful notes. > > Thanks in advance, > -- > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Rudy Gevaert e-mail: rudy.geva...@ugent.be > Directie ICT, Afdeling Infrastructuur > Groep Systemen tel: +32 9 264 4750 > Universiteit Gent fax: +32 9 264 4994 > Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > > > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.icinga.org > https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.icinga.org https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
