On 25/03/13 15:41, Pierre Casenove wrote:
Hello,
My spacewalk production server is only 2 years old. The upgrade patch
implies to reintall from scratch and restore the postgresql dump. So I
would need to buy a new server. I would probably get stuck on version
1.9 for a while if it was the last release for el5.
And of course, we need to keep el5 client support!
Pierre
2013/3/25 Lasher, Eric A <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
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]
<mailto:[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
>
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So,
yes, we will continue to EL5 clients to Spacewalk. I made a mistake in
not stating that, even though it was not the topic of my email :)
As for an upgrade path, the general process for switching from EL5 to
EL6, would be to restore the database onto a EL6 based Spacewalk server
and the clients will continue to work. I do not know if we document this
process too well today [which this thread is high lighting].
Overview in general terms, is:
- Assuming no upgrade of Spacewalk, just moving from EL5 to EL6
- Backup the files on disk (RPMs), config files, RPM's, database.
- Install (or re-install system) EL6
- Install Spacewalk 1.9
- Restore database files, files on disk (RPMs).
- Review old/new config files for differences (restore individual
settings)
- Run!
Warning/note - this is not something I have personally tested recently
for Spacewalk, which is why my reply it is lacking specific details, but
to acknowledge it can be done and give a pointer in the right direction.
You can combine an upgrade of Spacewalk, with switching of OS at the
same time, but that just adds another layer of changes to track.
I appreciate feedback so far as it will help as we plan ahead.
Regards,
Cliff
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Clifford Perry
Manager, Satellite Engineering
Red Hat, Inc.
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