OK, thanks! It would be awesome if that kind of information would be in the 389DS homepage, FAQ section. Or a HOWTO that explains migration process to a newer version of 389DS in a working replication environment. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rich Megginson wrote: >> >> On 11/04/2013 09:39 AM, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/04/2013 09:06 AM, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No matter that they are different versions??? >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes. The replication protocol is the same. >>>> The only problems you might have are schema and syntax incompatibility. >>>> >>>> >>>>> I thought that EPEL would package the same version of 389DS for both >>>>> systems CentOS 5 and 6 for compatibility reasons, >>>> >>>> No, why? >>> >>> If I were responsible for 389DS package, I would package the same >>> version for CentOS 5 and 6. That way, migration from one operating >>> system to another would be easy. > > > Do you not want any new features? RHEL 5 was released in 2007. > > >> >> I am one of the people responsible for 389DS package. We make sure >> migration is possible if not easy from one operating system to another. > > > Right. The way we recommend it in FreeIPA is to set up a new master on the > new OS, get replication done, then shut down the old side. Bingo, you're on > the new version with the same data. In practice it might be a little more > bumpy than that, particularly if you want to run them in parallel for a > while, but we've been consumers of 389-ds for 6+ years and haven't had many > issues in differing versions. > >>> >>> I don 't understand why they package different versions. If 389DS >>> people decide to make a big change, suppose in the replication >>> protocol. How would you migrate from CentOS 5 to 6? >> >> >> We make sure migration is possible. We try to make it easy. The >> replication protocol has not changed in several years. >> >>> >>>>> but that 's not what >>>>> they have in their repositories. >>>>> >>>>> The thing is ... >>>>> >>>>> If I have 3 server with CentOS 5 and 389DS 1.2.1 replicating and >>>>> working ... then I migrate one of those servers to CentOS 6 and 389DS >>>>> version 1.2.2 (or the version EPEL decides to package). Will they work >>>>> fine together? >>>> >>>> They should, yes. >>>> >>>>> Does EPEL consider that kind of things? >>>> >>>> It has absolutely nothing to do with EPEL. >>> >>> Who package 389DS for EPEL? >>> EPEL people or 389DS people? >>> >>>>> I think they are very important ... suppose that version 1.2.2 does >>>>> not work fine with 1.2.1. What would you do in such scenario? >>>> >>>> I would file a ticket and get it fixed asap, because it is supposed >>>> to work. >>> >>> No, I tried both and they work fine together, but I cant 't find >>> documentation to know if it 's safe ... >>> >>>>> Thanks ... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/04/2013 08:16 AM, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Rich, Can you be more specific? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 4, 2013 11:49 AM, "Rich Megginson" <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 11/03/2013 05:15 AM, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi people ... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Nowadays, I have CentOS5 on my servers, but next year I ll start >>>>>>>> setting up CentOS 6 on them. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I ll first install 389DS on the main CentOS5 servers from EPEL >>>>>>>> repository (currently version 1.2.1) and I guess replication between >>>>>>>> them ll work fine because I m using the same version of 389DS. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The thing is that EPEL for CentOS 6 has 389DS version 1.2.2 >>>>>>>> instead of >>>>>>>> 1.2.1. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So, what would a safe way to migrate to a newer version of 389DS? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> - Do I have to migrate all CentOS 5 servers participating in the >>>>>>>> replication process at the same time to CentOS 6? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> No. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> All versions of 389/RHDS/CentOS DS can replicate with each other. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> - How do you handle that kind of situations? Is there any >>>>>>>> documentation I can read? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 389 users mailing list >> 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > -- --------------------------------------------------------- Ezequiel Larrarte. " ... God Always Takes The Simplest Way! ... " -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
