fedora-legacy-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 12

Wed Apr 14 07:30:10 UTC 2004

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 fedora-legacy-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

I have about 40 machines running 8. Two teaching labs.

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Update-excuses report? (John Dalbec)
>    2. Re: Red Hat 8 (and soon 9) support (Randall J. Parr)
>    3. Re: Update-excuses report? (Jesse Keating)
>    4. Re: Red Hat 8 (and soon 9) support (Eric Rostetter)
>    5. Re: Rsync of download.fedoralegacy.org (Jesse Keating)
>    6. Re: Update-excuses report? (dick morrell)
>    7. RH 9 Complete Upgrade Procedure (Mike Vanecek)
>    8. Re: RH 9 Complete Upgrade Procedure (Jesse Keating)
>    9. Re: RH 9 Complete Upgrade Procedure (Howard B Owen)
>   10. Re: RH 9 Complete Upgrade Procedure (Howard B Owen)
>   11. redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question (Jesse Guardiani)
>   12. Re: redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question
>       (Jesse Keating)
>   13. Re: redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question (Wil Cooley)
>   14. RE: redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question
>       (Seth Shoemaker)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:53:50 -0400
> From: John Dalbec <jpdalbec at ysu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Update-excuses report?
> To: fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <407AC99E.7040803 at ysu.edu>
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> Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> > The biggest excuse has been my lack of time.  I had to get a couple 
> > chapters written for an upcoming book, then I had in-laws drop in 
> > unexpectantly.  Thankfully though, after this weekend's visit to another 
> > set of inlaws I should have more free time before I need to start doing 
> > some tech editing for yet another book.  There is also the issue of moving 
> > download.fedoralegacy.org.  I don't want to make any changes to the 
> > current one as rsync is off and httpd is severely throttled.  
> 
> You could promote the usage of mirror sites (assuming they still have rsync 
> access) by updating the apt mirror selection files.
> 
> Once the new
> > system comes online, then I can make the changes (push the updates) that 
> > need to happen.  I plan on devoting my free time to Legacy work.  There is 
> > a lot in the queue that needs to be released, so those are top priority.  
> > I am very sorry about the delay, wasn't expecting it.  We also need to 
> > ramp up for RHL9 support.  I'll be building the RHL9 tree on download when 
> > the new one comes up.
> 
> This begs the question: what is preventing the new system from coming online? 
> Is it that you haven't had time to set it up?
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:03:59 -0700
> From: "Randall J. Parr" <RParr at TemporalArts.COM>
> Subject: Re: Red Hat 8 (and soon 9) support
> To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project
> 	<fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <407ACBFF.3010604 at TemporalArts.com>
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> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >>Red Hat 8.0 support in Fedora Legacy seems pathetic.  We had a functioning
> >>apt-get for RH 8, I tested it (and am still using it) and it seems to work.
> >>It was put on hold for "upcoming changes upstream" and that's the last I
> >>heard of it.  Why couldn't we release it as it was (assuming it was working,
> >>which it appears to be) and then release another version when the upstream
> >>changes came in (can't apt-get update itself)?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >8.0 support sucks b/c from what I can tell there are about 5 people on
> >the planet using 8.0. It was not a widely installed release b/c a lot of
> >people were waiting for an 8.1 at that point and then when 9 came out
> >they jumped to that, instead.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> I have several clients with RH8 systems in production. RH9 has been 
> suggested but they are not interested in upgrading from EOL RH8 to 
> soon-to-be EOL RH9.
> 
> Would it be simplify ongoing RH8 support by requiring an upgrade to the 
> newer RPM (thus eliminating the RPM vs yum/apt version problem)?
> 
> We upgraded to rpm-4.1.1, yum 2.03, et.al. quite a while ago to get 
> around the rpm lockup problems.
> 
> R.Parr, RHCE
> Temporal Arts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:06:26 -0700
> From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>
> Subject: Re: Update-excuses report?
> To: fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200404121006.31883.jkeating at j2solutions.net>
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> On Monday 12 April 2004 09:53, John Dalbec wrote:
> > You could promote the usage of mirror sites (assuming they still have
> > rsync access) by updating the apt mirror selection files.
> 
> I have been waiting on that, as some of the new mirrors haven't synced 
> yet.  No, they don't have rsync currently.
> 
> > Once the new
> >
> > > system comes online, then I can make the changes (push the updates)
> > > that need to happen.  I plan on devoting my free time to Legacy
> > > work.  There is a lot in the queue that needs to be released, so
> > > those are top priority. I am very sorry about the delay, wasn't
> > > expecting it.  We also need to ramp up for RHL9 support.  I'll be
> > > building the RHL9 tree on download when the new one comes up.
> >
> > This begs the question: what is preventing the new system from coming
> > online? Is it that you haven't had time to set it up?
> 
> Approval from the site in question.  I'm just waiting, I have hardware 
> ready to go.
> 
> 

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