RH7.3 & legacy question
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Feb 3 08:45:39 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:35 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> >Greetings;
> >
> >Can I re-adjust the up2date config file on a formerly subscribed RH7.3
> >machine, whatever its called, to repoint it at the 'legacy' repo, and
> >have it keep the 7.3 box reasonably well up2date for security fixes
> >and such, with the up2date utility from the formerly paid
> >subscription?
> >
> >If so, is there a url to a faq describing how to do this?
> >
> >Or an old message maybe?
> >
> >Or maybe even a 'canned' solution in the form of an rpm that sets all
> >this stuff up again so it works with the legacy repo?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> Gene, see http://fedoralegacy.org/download/
>
> As I read the page, one must use yum or apt for automated updating. Or,
> rpms can be downloaded and installed by hand.
up2date can use yum repos
See http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/ for how
to configure it. You'll need to change the URLs to a fedoralegacy.org
mirror but the basic HOWTO is there.
Paul.
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