>
> I run a Red Hat Enterprise clone, Scientific Linux 6.5 . It is
> stodgy (equivalent to Fedora 12, a 4 year old base kernel) - but
> it will get security updates until 2023, supported by Fermilabs
> even if Red Hat goes away (or worse, gets bought by Larry
> Ellison). The problem is, almost all recent third party not-in-
> the-standard-distro packages want later major revs of libraries
> with new features; I can't compile or run those because the
> dependencies collide.
>
Are the packages open source? If so, you might be able to fetch the
source rpm and repackage it for rhel/centos/sl. Even better, someone
might have already done this for you.
I run centos, and usually find multiple choices for packages that
aren't in centos' distro when I search in pbone.
Ali
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