On Nov 20, 2007 2:52 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy(a)nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
On 11/20/2007 11:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 2:29 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy(a)nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/2007 11:20 PM, Michael E Brown wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:05:46PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ok I am going to ask the harder question :). How does this affect
>>>> RHEL-4 and such?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Does not affect RHEL4. I dont intend to upgrade mock in RHEL4 at this
>>> time, as I dont have a box to test this out on. Nor do I think it worth
>>> the effort to do so, as I doubt there are any users (or at least *very*
>>> few, if any.)
>>>
>>>
>> I have to contradict you here. To my knowledge Centos 4 is quite popular
>> and even though lots of people have switched their devel boxes to C5 or
>> Fedora, those still using C4 need love, too.
>>
>
> >From what I can tell with 3 sites, the numbers are the following:
>
> 60%+ EL-3
> 30%+ EL-4
> 5% + EL-5
> 5% other.
>
Stephen, please note that we are not simply speaking about machines
_running_ a specific distro but about machines running a distro
_and_also_ doing development. As Michael has pointed out, one can very
well do development on one distro (i.e. run mock on a Fedora box for
instance) and test the compiled stuff on EL-3 / EL-4 / EL-5.
Well up until I started working at the University, I was used to a
very conservative take on Operating Systems. You couldn't just stick a
new distribution on the network. You had to get it 'audited' for
security, stability, and trust-worthiness which took usually 3-9
months depending on what it was doing and how high up the approval
needed. So the vast amount of development work was done on EL-3/EL-4.
Now that I have been at a university for a year now.. I am beginning
to loosen up.. a bit.
BTW, I think that it would be nice to have a clear reference
somewhere
in the wiki for configs with the options needed to build for EL-3. (Yes,
I know EPEL does not support this distro but a) as pointed above there
are quite a lot of machines in use and b) it would not hurt.)
I support it whether or not EPEL does :).
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"