Downgrading from RHEL

[Andre Costa]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:05:15 -0500 (EST)
"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> This discussion should really be on the Taroon-list (and already has
> been discussed).

Ok, I knew this was OT (even said that on my first post ;)). I will
start it over there.

> Andre Costa said:
> > One possible scenario is, despite losing RHN, still being able to
> > maintain the system through public RHEL SRPM sites -- which should
> > be ok for usual package updates, but could be a problem for major
> > version upgrades (like RHEL 3.0 to RHEL3.x or 4.0).
> 
> You pay for (and the service agreement is for) the support.  After
> your support runs out you are free to do what you want with the
> software as long as you don't a) violate Red Hat's Trademarks or b)
> violate the license of the software package (be it GPL, BSD, Apache,
> etc.).

No problems so far.

> This plan also relies on RH to continue providing their software as
> SRPMs for free on their mirrors.  I'm not saying that they will change
> their mind, but you should understand that they are under no
> obligation to do this.

Right. That would be a problem, as I said on my previous post, because
it would probably force the reinstallation of the server.

> A more realistic plan would look at the effort
> required to backport fixes or upgrade the software as the maintainers
> release new versions.

This is what I was looking (hoping) for: a somewhat painless process of
"turning RHEL into vanilla Linux" (if necessary, that is -- it's not
that this is necessarily going to happen). Does such a thing exist?

Best,

Andre

PS: I will restart this thread on taroon-list.

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa