Re: [ovirt-users] .el6/el7 support in 3.6 for hosts (was Proposing fix for EL6 m2crypto memory leak)

On 30/10/14 23:49, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 10/28/2014 05:23 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:42:19PM +0100, Sven Kieske wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 28/10/14 12:28, Daniel Helgenberger wrote: >>>> But it is a short term solution until the issue is fixed or >>>> El6 obsoleted (well, this might be quite soon for a protect like >>>> oVirt?) >>> >>> Well I doubt EL6 support will be dropped from ovirt, as downstream >>> still requires it to work on EL6 in the future, EL6 is still in >>> production phase. >> >> It won't happen in ovirt-3.6, but support for el6 would be dropped at > > actually: > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-September/027421.html interesting what about engine side? when will support get dropped there?

This is very important because it most likely requires to install a new server with el7 and recover engine db there, which needs some planning. >> some point in the future. Backporting packages an re-solving bugs that >> have been already solved in el7 is little fun, and drains our >> developement and QE resources. We should start thinking how and when to >> phase el6 out. >> >> Dan.