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

[fnwsa at yahoo.com]

Your explanation is very helpful. Thanks a lot, Paul.

 
nz



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 From: Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:14:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is SW compatible with RHEL 4? Can SW work as Satellite replacement?
 
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM,  <rhn-satellite at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:
> On Thu, July 5, 2012 15:29, fnwsa at yahoo.com wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>
> If you have the paid extended support add-on, you can get _some_ security
> errata for RHEL4 through 2/28/2015.  Otherwise, Paul is correct.
>
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Essentially the extended life support is only intended for legacy
systems which wouldn't be cost and or time effective to update because
you plan on completely replacing them within the 3 year time frame any
way.
While you do still get critical security updates during the extended
life phase you still would not pass a security audit without having an
explicit plan including dates for when those systems were planed to be
retired or replaced.
No new software versions or addons should support RHEL 4 any more, and
no one should be using RHEL 4, CentOS 4, or Scientific Linux 4 for new
installs.
If you have any thing running on RHEL 4 you should plan to replace,
retire, or update to RHEL 6 it as soon as possible.

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