Further to this question:
I noticed that the EPEL 6 repository has Zabbix 1.8.4 rpm's. Can I point CentOS 5.2 at this repository and install Zabbix from there?
Further to this question:
I noticed that the EPEL 6 repository has Zabbix 1.8.4 rpm's. Can I point CentOS 5.2 at this repository and install Zabbix from there?
You should most certainly not do this. You open yourself up to all kinds of library errors, version inconsistency, and general badness. The package version differences between RHEL 5 and 6 are vast. At best you will have a functional system that throws strange errors on occasion. Most likely the install will simply fail because of non-existent dependencies or other version checks.
If you really want a fun afternoon, spool up a VM and try it out. See what happens.
As a corollary to packs's excellent answer, you can download the SRPMs from EPEL 6 and attempt to rebuild them for EL 5 using mock. This may require a Fedora 13 or newer system though, since the checksum format for packages has changed.
rpmbuild -bb
forever! Just be careful to check the SPEC file to make sure it's not requiring any library versions that aren't available.
Mar 19, 2011 at 23:54