Keeping FC up to date with RHEL packages?

[Clint Harshaw]

thomas.cameron at camerontech.com wrote:
> All -
> 
> I know that RHEL 3 is basically the "enterprise" version of Red Hat Linux
> 9.  I know that FC1 was basically what Red Hat Linux 10 would've been had
> Red Hat not made the changes they made.
> 
> So here's my question...  Is it possible to keep, say FC1 up to date using
> RHEL packages?  I mean grabbing the .src.rpm from a mirror and compiling
> it?
> 
> When RHEL 4 comes out it looks like it will be the "enterprise" version of
> FC2.  So does anyone want to venture a guess as to whether FC2 could be
> kept up to date with RHEL 4 packages?
> 
> Obviously there would be no commercial support, and I can see a bunch of
> reasons this would not be a good idea, but I'm just curious.
> 
> Thomas
> 
Hi Thomas:

You can keep up FC1 for another couple of versions of FC by using Fedora 
Legacy's updates. Then you don't have to worry about src's and compiling 
at all.

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

Hope this helps,
Clint