Maximum RPM Amendum, the real world files; building security updates on EOL Redhat releases
What considerations should I be making when upgrading packages on an older Redhat release? (eg, my collocate RH 7.2 box). I need the critical security updates current, while keeping everything manageable and smooth. I've researched building rpms from spec files (via source tarballs, or from src.rpm). Should I be building from the newest src.rpms available? Should I install from the newest tarballs? This brings up another question, do I need to upgrade to a newer redhat (or to the current fedora) release? If so, what's the best way to do that?
Even if you can't be exhaustive, please tell me what you know. I'm sure there's plenty that can reconfirm what you have to say, and build on it to.
Thank you,
Scott Edwards Daxal Communications - http://www.daxal.com Surf the USA - http://www.surfthe.us
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:14:09 -0700, Scott Edwards supadupa@gmail.com wrote:
What considerations should I be making when upgrading packages on an older Redhat release? (eg, my collocate RH 7.2 box). I need the critical security updates current, while keeping everything manageable and smooth. I've researched building rpms from spec files (via source tarballs, or from src.rpm). Should I be building from the newest src.rpms available? Should I install from the newest tarballs? This brings up another question, do I need to upgrade to a newer redhat (or to the current fedora) release? If so, what's the best way to do that?
Even if you can't be exhaustive, please tell me what you know. I'm sure there's plenty that can reconfirm what you have to say, and build on it to.
upgrade to rh 7.3, then get updates from http://fedoralegacy.org and help them with packages you're interested in. you won't have fun with the ``newest tarballs'', since many of them won't build in your old installation. you would end up trying to build your own distribution. yes, you could as well install fedora core 3, it's nice, or have a look at some of the rhel rebuilds.
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:14 -0700, Scott Edwards wrote:
What considerations should I be making when upgrading packages on an older Redhat release? (eg, my collocate RH 7.2 box). I need the critical security updates current, while keeping everything manageable and smooth. I've researched building rpms from spec files (via source tarballs, or from src.rpm). Should I be building from the newest src.rpms available? Should I install from the newest tarballs? This brings up another question, do I need to upgrade to a newer redhat (or to the current fedora) release? If so, what's the best way to do that?
Even if you can't be exhaustive, please tell me what you know. I'm sure there's plenty that can reconfirm what you have to say, and build on it to.
Keeping up to date with security issues for a whole distribution is a *big* job - just ask the people at fedoralegacy.org that are trying to do this for old Red Hat/Fedora releases.
If you only have a very limited number of applications running on your server, you can at least restrict yourself to tracking security updates for those packages.
However, it would be much easier really to go for a distribution that is actively maintained by the vendor. Since you're on Red Hat 7.2 it would seem that going with a Fedora-like distribution that changes very regularly is not for you, so I'd be inclined to go for one of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones such as centos.
Paul.
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