It's pretty critical we still support el5 clients... I'm assuming this is only the server side?
On Mar 25, 2013, at 10:29 AM, "richard rigby" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/03/13 14:57, Cliff Perry wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> today we provide Spacewalk releases on EL5, EL6, and current Fedora >> versions. Due to the increasing differences of EL5 vs. the newest OSes, >> we are seriously considering not releasing Spacewalk on EL5 anymore, >> since it hinders our ability to do some other forward-looking changes we >> would like to do. >> >> If we make the current Spacewalk 1.9 the last release on EL5, will >> Spacewalk users find it hard to migrate to EL6? >> >> Feedback is appreciated and will be taken into consideration for how >> quickly we make this change. > > is this just talking about the server side, rather than clients? > > currently running spacewalk server on el5/32 bit (making use of old > hardware), and all works well. > > if 1.9 were to be the last el5 release, it wouldn't be too much of a pain - > we would just stick on this version until able to migrate the server to > el6/64, which we should be able to do without too much trouble, though we may > get a release or two behind before we have time to do the upgrade. again, not > really a worry. > > as for client side, we will have some (quite a few) el5 clients for a while > yet, so it would be nice if these could continue to be managed by spacewalk. > > hope that's of some use. > > thanks, > > richard > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
