[ovirt-users] Proposing fix for EL6 m2crypto memory leak

[Sven Kieske]

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.


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