RFC: Back-ported errata RPMs for EOL Red Hat releases

Hi -

Assursys are evaluating the viability of providing back-ported errata
packages for Red Hat Linux releases that have reached their official
End-of-Life, such as the 7.3 and 7.2 releases.

If this service is of interest to your organisation, please get in touch
(either privately, or on this list); we're particularly interested in
hearing which releases we should prioritise on (our hunch is 7.3, 7.2, 8,
7.0, in that order), and how much such a service is worth to your
organisation.

At present, for insurance reasons, we can only offer such a service to EU
customers.

Best Regards,
Alex.

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 rhldevel(a)assursys.co.uk wrote:

>  Assursys are evaluating the viability of providing back-ported
> errata
>  packages for Red Hat Linux releases that have reached their official
>  End-of-Life, such as the 7.3 and 7.2 releases. 
Cool!

I hope this will work out.

>  At present, for insurance reasons, we can only offer such a service
> to EU
>  customers. 
That's ok, the GPL means people have the permission to
give the packages to others.

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[Chuck Wolber]

>  Assursys are evaluating the viability of providing back-ported
> errata
>  packages for Red Hat Linux releases that have reached their official
>  End-of-Life, such as the 7.3 and 7.2 releases. 
Any chance you would be willing to pool your efforts with us in the (2 day
old) RH consortium project? Feel free to join the mailing list if so:

http://www.quantumlinux.com/mailman/listinfo/rh-consortium

-Chuck



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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Chuck Wolber wrote:

>  > Assursys are evaluating the viability of providing back-ported
> errata
>  > packages for Red Hat Linux releases that have reached their official
>  > End-of-Life, such as the 7.3 and 7.2 releases.
>  
>  Any chance you would be willing to pool your efforts with us in the (2 day
>  old) RH consortium project? Feel free to join the mailing list if so:
>  
>  http://www.quantumlinux.com/mailman/listinfo/rh-consortium 
Already signed up. ;-)

>  -Chuck 
Best Regards,
Alex.