Florin Andrei wrote:
Now that the Legacy project is shutting down, the biggest problem
becomes the security updates.
FL never provided anything else than security updates.
I have an FC4 server that I plan to keep running until CentOS 5
comes out, but I also have to apply security patches
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:55:04PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
But then there might be some
dependency issues that might get ugly.
What dependencies? Either you edited spec and recompiled
results, which means among other things that you are not using
a version which
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
You could upgrade to FC5 and later upgrade to CentOS 5?
Will most likely not work as expected : FC5 updates are going to
out strip the E-V-R for similar packages in EL5. And there is the
issue of orphan packages that in turn might be
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:44:56PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
Version of what?
RHEL or CentOS.
Since they are really the same, you know. ;-)
What you are interested in differs only by identifier strings
in release parts. CentOS on purpose _precisely_ tracks RHEL
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
I guess that if Florin wants a nice clean CentOS 5
system it might better to reinstall.
Exactly.
Meanwhile, I have to keep this silly FC4 box on life support, cross my
fingers, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
It's the prepare for the worst part
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:55:04PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
Now that the Legacy project is shutting down, the biggest problem
becomes the security updates. I have an FC4 server that I plan to keep
running until CentOS 5 comes out, but I also have to apply security
patches to this machine
Karanbir Singh wrote:
FC5 installed and then updated with all released packages will
contain packages that will by the time CentOS-5 is out there,
already be newer than whats included in CentOS-5. Which will create
problems since those packages will then not get yum updated to
whats in
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
I thought CentOS 5 was going to be based on FC6 and that therefore it
would be (kind of) possible to upgrade from FC5 to CentOS 5, but I guess
I'm wrong then.
At release time, FC5 would have older packages than FC6 at release time,
but FC5 has since seen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:04:48AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
At release time, FC5 would have older packages than FC6 at release time,
but FC5 has since seen updates etc. Eg.
fc5 release firefox : firefox-1.5.0.1-9
fc5 latest firefox :
