What happens when there's a bug fix or security update that you need? Pinning versions also only works as long as you have no *other* modules that depend on a newer version of the apache module.
IMO the apache module should not be dropping support for an Apache release that is still widely used by several organizations. RHEL 6 End of Extended Life-cycle Support does not expire until November 30, 2020 and there are still customers deploying RHEL 6 systems *today* along with httpd version 2.2. On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 8:18:45 PM UTC-4, Ben Ford wrote: > > Is there a reason you can't pin to the module to a version that supports > your needs? > > Any users that use either Apache 2.2 or use one of the above operating >> systems should pin to an older version of the module. We will continue to >> support these operating systems for older versions of the module. > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:01 PM Tim Skirvin <tski...@fnal.gov > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Davin Hanlon <davin....@puppet.com <javascript:>> writes: >> >> > Quick note to let you know of some major work that we're performing >> > to the module. As you probably know, Apache 2.2 has been end-of-lifed >> > since the start of 2018 [...] Therefore, we're taking steps to remove >> > support for that version of Apache from the module. This also impacts >> > the operating systems that we will support for the module. The following >> > operating systems won't be supported by the Apache module after the >> > changes: >> >> > - RHEL 5 >> > - RHEL 6 >> > - CentOS 5 >> > - CentOS 6 >> > - Oracle Linux 6 >> > - Scientific Linux 6 >> >> Is there any chance you'd consider delaying this change? RHEL 6 >> and family are "officially supported" releases for years to come, and I >> and many other sites still use it for many or most most of our services. >> Without speaking for anybody else, if you drop support for Apache 2.2 at >> this point, I'll probably have to transition away from using the >> puppetlabs/apache module entirely, and I'd really rather not. >> >> - Tim Skirvin (tski...@fnal.gov >> <javascript:>) >> -- >> HPC Systems Administrator / Developer >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/tskirvin >> USCMS-T1 Collaboration Fermilab ECF >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20180823190134.GB91021%40fnal.gov >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/6ef044ba-d685-462a-b2da-d23ebf3c839c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
