> Hi, > > I've just got an answer from Red Hat support and I feel a bit > disappointed, so I'm asking your experience. The other day we realized > that one particular application which is shipped in RHEL 5 is pretty > old, we need a more recent version, so we asked Red Hat if they could > provide a proper RPM package. The support informed me that this is not > possible, Red Hat does not ship "custom" packages, even if the > customer is willing to have an advanced developer support contract or > something like this. If we need this functionality, the only solution > is to use unsupported package compiled by ourselves or 3rd party. > > Has anyone ever had a similar situation?
We have this issue with mysql. The version offered in the distro is older than the dba wants. So we have to get newer packages from alternate sources. This is not the best. It's just the cost of accepting RHEL's model. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
