[Spacewalk-list] Is SW compatible with RHEL 4? Can SW work as Satellite replacement?

[fnwsa at yahoo.com]

Please ignore my previous message. Here is the updated one:

Thank you for the info, Paul. It's very helpful. But one thing I don't understand well, that is: RHEL 4 is in its Extended Life Phase and Product Life Cycle that will be ended by February 28, 2015 (https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/). Why do you say "RHEL 4 and all of its derivatives are EOL (End of Life) don't expect any thing to support it any more"? Would you please explain it further? Thank you!

nz



________________________________
 From: Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 1:57:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is SW compatible with RHEL 4? Can SW work as Satellite replacement?
 
RHEL 4 and all of its derivatives are EOL (End of Life) don't expect
any thing to support it any more. also deploying RHEL 4 is a security
risk because patches are no longer being produced for it, you should
migrate to a newer version as soon as possible.

As for that article its a little out of date but yes generally it is
correct. be fore warned you may need to run with selinux in permissive
mode for a while to get the rules correct.

There are also other errata sync script than the one he mentioned in
the article. the reason i mention this is some people have no trouble
with it while others
 don't like it for one reason or an other. getting
the errata sync process to work the way you want is important because
if you mess it up you can send days fixing and redoing it. So I highly
suggest you try a few of them before you decide which one to use.
I personally had no end of issues with rhn-clone-errata.py and got so
fed up with it i wrote my own from scratch; however I know other
people who swear it work perfectly for them.


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM,  <fnwsa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new in Spacewalk and hope to get some helps here :-)
>
> Two questions: (1) Is the latest Spacewalk compatible with RHEL 4? I don't
> see it in the download page: http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/
> (2) Did anyone use this instruction 'Using
 spacewalk as a redhat satellite
> replacement' (http://www.codarama.com/drupal/?q=node/4)? Is it working well?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> nz
>
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