RH 9 EOL Updates ISOs

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 19:50, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:34:21 +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote
> > > >I have been asking around and have just about come to the conclusion that it
> > > >don't exist. I would like to get CD(s) (or downloadable ISOs) containing all
> > > >RH 9 updates (SRPM and i386 RPM) up to the point of EOL. I'd like to avoid
> > > >having to download all the individual packages. With all the mirrors and
> > > >legacy work going around, I was hoping someone had already put together an
> > > >ISO. Does anyone know of a source?
> > > 
> > > I did something similar for RedHat 7.3 at its EOL.  The frustrating 
> > > thing (as a former RedHat mirror admin) is that RedHat doesn't really 
> > > have a policy for removing superseded errata from the updates tree.  
> > > Upon request, they've periodically purged the updates tree of old RPMs, 
> > > but even RedHat 9 still has duplicate packages.  Once they do that, it 
> > > doesn't seem too difficult to produce an ISO (or two).
> > 
> > I make use of a handy repostory maintenance script (rh_buildtree
> > written by Peter Benie who works in a different department here),
> > which given a set of directories full of rpms constructs/maintains a
> > directory which contains the latest version of all those packages
> > which pass a signature-check (as hard-links to whichever source they
> > were from -- original shipped version, updates, local-packages etc).
> 
> Interesting. I finally just downloaded all the updates and put them on a CD. I
> did have to do some editing to get rid of the old duplicate RPMS (moved them
> to a folder by themselves).

Have you (and other folks) checked out the RedHat-CD-HOWTO? It contains
detailed instructions for using the anaconda-runtime package to generate
your own CD's (and/or network installation source tree) including errata
packages. I've done this for 7.x through 9 in the past and it works very
well.

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE