Hi Andreas,
Note that SLAC no longer considers the RH72 machines secure. Are these
machines running RH72/RH73/RH8 _really_ being maintained with security
patches? What do you consider their useful life to be?
Pete
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> Peter Elmer wrote:
> > SLAC/SCS is pushing very hard to discontinue use of RH72 and hence the
> > development build announced today will be the last xrootd build for which
> > I will make binary tarballs and an rpm available for RH72.
> >
> > I was continuing to do this mostly as I knew that there were sites (e.g.
> > CNAF) which still had server machines running RH73. Have those machines
> > been migrated to SL? Does anybody have any RH72/RH73 server machines left?
> > (I'd strongly encourage you to migrate.)
>
> we have a bunch of servers at GridKa that run a mixture of
> RH72(?)/RH73/RH8. I don't think these systems will ever be re-installed
> again with SL/RHEL before the end of their usefull life. I think Gregory
> is building xrootd already for RH8. I think we would be happy, as long
> as building with gcc2.95.3 or gcc2.96 works.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
>
> >
> > I guess ROOT may still support RH7x? While I'll not do binary builds of
> > xrootd and probably won't (at SLAC, at least) have access to RH7x machines,
> > I can probably do occasional build tests on SL3 with gcc2.95.3, say, which
> > should catch many of the problems that come up.
> >
> > (BTW, does anybody know what the current time-out date is for support
> > of RH73 at CERN? I seem to have lost track of that...)
> >
> > Pete
> >
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