old redhat rpms list/mirrors

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To have proper versionned obsolete while allowing for upgrade paths from
> very old redhat distro, sometime I need the list of the packages in
> pre-fedora era, to find the latest version. I have browsed through the
> net, but haven't found that (or a mirror still mirroring old releases).
> Are you aware of such resource? Ideally it would date back to redhat 5,
> I don't think older releases are worth it.
>
> This is not only a theoretical issue, since having obsoletes for old
> fedora/redhat releases may help for upgrades from RHEL versions to
> fedora (I know it is not supported, but it would help packagers trying 
> to have it work).
>
> --
> Pat
>
>   

Theoretically, they should be available at 
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/