What prevent you to get JDK8 on slave to run the remoting agent, but use JDK installer to build your legacy JDK 1.1 application ?
2015-03-24 21:57 GMT+01:00 Daniel Beck <[email protected]>: > > On 24.03.2015, at 20:53, Kanstantsin Shautsou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Sorry, but rhel5 is not something that we should care about, AFAIR it on > extended support. You can still use ancient jenkins version and ask RHEL > support to do patches for jenkins. RHEL6 and RHEL7 were released long time > ago - update your infra. > > The problem with the Java version used to run Jenkins is that it needs to > be available on whatever box your builds run on. > > It's nice if you're only building products using the latest hype > technology, and discard them as soon as they're done, or upgrade the > technology stack in every iteration, but there are *many* companies that > still need to maintain products originally developed a decade or more ago, > and the tools to build them are just as old, and wouldn't properly run on > current systems. > > And it's simply not possible to update Jenkins (master) in isolation, the > remoting model requires that all slaves use similar JREs, and satisfy the > minimum requirements. > > > Ok, s/we/imho/ . Btw, there should be somewhere statistics. Let’s check > how many RHEL5 installation jenkins has. > > If you're referring to the anonymous usage statistics, we only know that > they're running Linux, and the CPU architecture (os.name and os.arch). > > And again, it's likely not the "installations" of Jenkins (i.e. master) > that are the problem, but the build nodes. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/25005053-52C1-4F40-B722-2A69E5A64F4D%40beckweb.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANMVJzmtvFmMnMki7q6H-0NDLmsQVjuzuC2xexvc0hb204iCaQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
