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

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/31/2014 10:45 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
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> 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:
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>>>> 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?)
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>>>> 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.
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>>> It won't happen in ovirt-3.6, but support for el6 would be dropped at
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>> actually:
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-September/027421.html
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> interesting
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> what about engine side? when will support get dropped there?

no, this is about hosts only.

> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Dan.
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