Re: Any plans to upgrade from RHEL 4?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 08:49:46PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>When I did my patch to add md5sums to the announcements of GCC
>snapshots what I had tested on my notebook actually failed to work on
>gcc.gnu.org -- openssl does not yet support sha256 there.
>
>That made me realize that we are still running RHEL 4 which was first
>released early in 2005.  I understand there is still a bit of life in
>that platform (and I do understand Enterprise Linux, kind of key to my
>day job <g>), but still I wonder -- are there any plans moving to RHEL
>5, say?

A while ago, I started up a virtual machine on one of our almost useless
"backup" sourceware systems to see what would be required to upgrade.  I
was actually thinking of switching to Fedora since it allows you to more
easily upgrade between releases.

fche and I got into a (very) mild disagreement on that course of action so
I haven't pursued it much since then.

I agree that we need to upgrade but it really would be nice to move to
a new system at that time too.

I wonder if we could get some kind organization to donate new hardware.
That would make the switchover much easier.

We do have access to a google-sponsored machine but its configuration is
not as hefty as the current sourceware so I don't think we'd want to
move there.

cgf