Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply. I fully understand the decisions behind it.
Luckily we still have nrpe ;)
Quoting Michael Friedrich <michael.friedr...@icinga.com>, Thu, 12 Oct 2017:
Hi,
On 12. Oct 2017, at 11:31, Rudy Gevaert <rudy.geva...@ugent.be> wrote:
Hello,
Like many environments you end up with a lot of system that are EOL
for years. But you still need to try to support them.
I was wondering if anybody already went down the route of building
packages for Debian Squeeze to get more recent icinga2 packages
than the one in the repo provide on packages.icinga.com
That won’t work as Debian Squeeze does not satisfy dependencies
anymore, i.e. libraries, exported interfaces and such. That mainly
affects their old OpenSSL version, but also other code parts which
need to be compiled.
The source code development process does not take care about EOL
distribution versions, that is a similar thing with RHEL5 being EOL.
So fi you somehow “patch” Icinga 2 to run on such ancient
distributions, it might again break with a future version.
Keep in mind that you won’t get any support from us here too. If
Icinga 2 keeps crashing for whatever reason on Debian Squeeze with
your custom built package, it not something you may open an issue or
receive help.
That may sound hard, but that’s a general rule with software. You
can only support things where others support you too. The Debian
project doesn’t support Squeeze either, so necessary security and
stability fixes won’t reach your system.
I’d rather invest the time and resources to plan a migration and
update to a modern infrastructure.
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Rudy Gevaert e-mail: rudy.geva...@ugent.be
Directie ICT, Afdeling Infrastructuur
Groep Systemen tel: +32 9 264 4750
Universiteit Gent fax: +32 9 264 4994
Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be
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