Re: Redhat 9 to fedora via apt-get?

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, JD Austin wrote:

> Normally I'd just pop in the install media and upgrade, but I have a
> production server that is in another state
> that I wish to update from RH9 to fedora.
> I have apt for redhat installed; is it safe to switch the repository to
> the fedora one to upgrade the packages/etc.
> Is there a cleaner way to keep getting the security updates/etc on older
> RH machines?

I was going to suggest that you try Fedora Legacy and report your results
back to the list.

The Fedora Legacy Project provides "security updates and critical bug
fixes for select versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core releases. No
new features or packages will be introduced except where they are required
for future management of our updates and agreed upon by a consensus."

Instructions at http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/apt-rh9.php

But now I see it doesn't have very many updates.

http://fedoralegacy.org/updates/RH9/

The mailing list for fedora-legacy-list appears to have a lot of
discussion about the project not moving along.

There seem to be a few alternatives for enterprise editions too, like
CentOS-3 and WhiteBox Linux.

Jeremy C. Reed

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