Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, June 14, 2007 4:48 pm, Matt Brodeur said: > > [RHEL3] be supported until October 2010 (7 years from its release in > 2003). RHEL2.1 would go until 05/2009, RHEL4 until 02/2012, and RHEL5 > is 03/2014. That's assuming no one decides to extend the support > terms again. > I imagine by 20

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Brodeur
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:19:47PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > > How long until Red Hat EOL's RHEL3? I have a RHEL3 server that > was due to expire next week, and I renewed it for another 3 years. > When RHEL3 is EOL'ed, I imagine I'll have to upgrade it to a > supported version, like RHEL5. It'll

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I guess that depends on how much you can bend the truth and keep > a straight face. If a package didn't come from Red Hat's build > system, it's not a RHEL package. I don't know of anyone freely > redistributing the RH-built update packages. Sorry; I should have been clearer. I'm not out t

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, June 14, 2007 4:00 pm, Matt Brodeur said: > > I guess that depends on how much you can bend the truth and keep a > straight face. If a package didn't come from Red Hat's build system, > it's not a RHEL package. I don't know of anyone freely redistributing > the RH-built update packages

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Brodeur
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > that subscription has now expired, so I wonder if there > is some repository of freely available packages that are > perfectly compatible and %100 sync'd with whatever RHAT > is supplying as bugfixes and updates for RHEL3. In o

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Buskey
http://www.CentOS.org On 6/14/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working with some RHEL3 boxes that until recently were kept up to date via subscription to the RedHat Network but that subscription has now expired, so I wonder if there is some repository of freely available pa

Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm working with some RHEL3 boxes that until recently were kept up to date via subscription to the RedHat Network but that subscription has now expired, so I wonder if there is some repository of freely available packages that are perfectly compatible and %100 sync'd with whatever RHAT is supplyin