Slaves on Old OS's

[Matt Wilson]

Hi all,

We're currently running Jenkins 1.651.1.

Is there any work around to get the current slave.jar to run with older versions of Java?  I've got a few really old machines that are capped out at Java 5 or 6.  Up until now these old machines have continued to run jobs via our old pre-jenkins build system.  We've used some other solutions (i.e. ssh) with moderate success to bridge this gap, but I thought I'd see if anyone in the group had come up with any creative solutions.  I'd really like to pull my builds back into one solution...

Cheers

Matt

[Baptiste Mathus]

Hi,

Can't you use a backport or something of the JDK 7 on those platforms?

BTW, can you tell which ones they are?

Thanks

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[Simona Avornicesei]

What is the reason for keeping/using such old machines?

[Matt Wilson]

Trust me, I wish I didn't have to bother with them.  There are lots of different reasons.  Old hardware that hasn't been replaced.  Old build reproducability.  Customer requirement.

[Matt Wilson]

Back ports eh.  I'll have to look in to that.  Thanks

Right now I'm having issues with some old AIX and Solaris boxes

On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 10:22:37 AM UTC-4, Baptiste Mathus wrote:

Hi,

Can't you use a backport or something of the JDK 7 on those platforms?

BTW, can you tell which ones they are?

Thanks

Le 12 août 2016 2:55 PM, "Matt Wilson" <mwil...@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi all,

We're currently running Jenkins 1.651.1.

Is there any work around to get the current slave.jar to run with older versions of Java?  I've got a few really old machines that are capped out at Java 5 or 6.  Up until now these old machines have continued to run jobs via our old pre-jenkins build system.  We've used some other solutions (i.e. ssh) with moderate success to bridge this gap, but I thought I'd see if anyone in the group had come up with any creative solutions.  I'd really like to pull my builds back into one solution...

Cheers

Matt

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[Baptiste Mathus]

Which version for AIX? 5.x or even older?

Don't have one handy anymore, but IIRC simply copying the /usr/java7 folder (IIRC the path) onto an older version should often work (pretty sure we did it on 6.x to 5.x, maybe 4.x but not sure).

Obviously that would make the support contract unusable, but hey anyway they're always trying to find a way to make your case an exclusion.

Cheers

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[Matt Wilson]

haha.  Nothing older than 5.x.

I'll give that a try on AIX.   I know I've tried that on Solaris, but I don't think I have on AIX.

cheers

[Jason Pyeron]

We are building / testing software on Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000

Here is the java version vs supported OS version
Java 7 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/config-417990.html)
Windows Vista ... Windows 10

Java 6 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/system-configurations-135212.html)
Windows 2000 ... Windows 8

Java 5 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/system-configurations-139801.html)
Windows 98/2000 ... Windows Vista (w/ support = Windows 7)
The internet says 1.5.0_05 will install on NT 4

Java 4 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/system-configurations-139862.html 1.4.2, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/install-windows-139781.html 1.4.1)
Windows 98/NT 4 ... Windows XP (w/ support = Windows 7)

-Jason