where? security updates for FC4

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) nils at lemonbit.nl
Thu Jan 4 00:10:06 UTC 2007


Florin Andrei wrote:

> Now that the Legacy project is shutting down, the biggest problem  
> becomes the security updates.

FL never provided anything else than security updates.

> I have an FC4 server that I plan to keep running until CentOS 5  
> comes out, but I also have to apply security patches to this  
> machine meanwhile.
>
> What would be the best source of security updates for FC4 short-term?
>
> SRPMs from FC5 or FC6, recompiled? But then there might be some  
> dependency issues that might get ugly.
>
> SRPMs from RHEL or CentOS? Which version would be closest to FC4?  
> Again, I expect some dependency issues here.
>
> Of course, one can always download the upstream tarballs and  
> generate packages, but somehow I suspect this to be the most  
> difficult method.
>
> Any other suggestions?

You could upgrade to FC5 and later upgrade to CentOS 5?

Nils Breunese.
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