[CentOS] Fedora Legacy shutting down
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 7 21:10:49 UTC 2007
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>
>>Because it's probably the easiest transition to something supported.
>>RHAS is more-or-less RHL 7.2, and in my ignorance I think it the likely
>>source for most RHL 7.3 fixes over time. It's the first place I would
>>look. If the transition is likely to work, it should do so with a
>>minimum of fuss and bother - binaries are compatible, for example, and
>>might not even require a reboot (except maybe to change kernels).
>
>
> The tactic I used on 7.3 boxes was to simply use upgrades from CentOS
> 2.1. Here and there it required manual tweaks, but more or less it
> worked very nice. All my 7.3 boxes used to run kernels, openssl, apache
> and more or less everything else important from 2.1. If your servers
> followed "minimal install" route, this option might work nicely for you.
> Just subscribe to Red Hat's enterprise watch list, and install updated
> packages as updates are released. Needs some manual maintenance but at
> least you don't need to go through full update process.
Your experience is about what I expected.
Note re watch list; I'm on it, it's a little noisy (covers all
releases), but doesn't have all updates. The only way I know to find all
updates (short of having a real RHN account) is to watch the source ftp
directory, and even that's not always up2date ) discovered.
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Cheers
John
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