[Spacewalk-list] Running Spacewalk on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5

[Cliff Perry]

On 25/03/13 19:37, Pierre Casenove wrote:
> Hello,
> To be perfectly clear: upgrading from el5 to el6 is possible, I just
> need some time to plan this.
> A page on the wiki would be useful : with my el5 backup, what exactly do
> I need to follow from the installation guide to get spacewalk up and
> running?
> What version of cobbler (2.0 ou cobbler-epel) should I install?
> Do I have to install spacewalk-setup-embedded-postgresql or do i just
> need to restore configuraiton files and the pg dump? Do I need to
> restore both postgres and spacewalk databases or only spacewalk one?
> In fact, a third page on the wiki, like HowToInstall and HowToUpgrade,
> but to address el5 to el6 upgrade.
>

Quick reply, I think this thread high lights the need to try and provide 
a document on our wiki as part of any release where we do drop EL5.

Cliff

> All the tools installed on my spacewalk server (mrepo, reposync, errata
> scripts and so on) are el6 compatible.
>
> Pierre
>
>
> 2013/3/25 Coffman, Anthony J <Tony.Coffman at snapon.com
> <mailto:Tony.Coffman at snapon.com>>
>
>     We'd have no problems with this change.  Currently on EL6.
>
>     Regards,
>     --Tony
>
>
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>     Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Running Spacewalk on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5
>
>     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.
>
>     Thank you & regards,
>     Cliff
>
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>     Clifford Perry
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Clifford Perry
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