redhat vs fedora install packages

[Russell Golden]

If I upgrade the kernel from the Shrike version to the FC5 version, 
would it still be Shrike? Or would it just be better to install from source?

A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:

>Now the servers are running under FC4 but I am considering the upgrading
>(without reinstallation) to FC5. The process of upgrading began about
>five years ago from RH6 distribution, so I sequentially upgraded the
>servers without reinstalling them through all RH7.x, RH9 and FC1-3
>versions.
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>Alexey Fadyushin
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Russell Golden
>>Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 2:58 AM
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Re: redhat vs fedora install packages
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>>o_o really? wow... What system do you use right now?
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>>A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:
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>>>You can download Fedora RPM's and try to install them. Usually, if
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>>>dependencies are satisfied the packages will work. If the Fedora
>>>packages for GCC require other Fedora packages, you can also download
>>>and install them. Then repeat this process recursively until all
>>>dependencies will be satisfied. However this process may require to
>>>replace many packages and require rewriting of some configs. Actually
>>>this process works (however, it  requires a lot of manual work) and I
>>>used this process to completely update some my servers (those which
>>>could not be physically accessed for reinstallation) to never
>>>distributions since RH6.
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
>>>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Russell Golden
>>>>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:10 AM
>>>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>>>Subject: Re: redhat vs fedora install packages
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>>>>apt-get isn't in Shrike. not that i can find, at least. (Shrike =
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>>>RHL9)
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>>>>Mike Burger wrote:
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>>>>>Should be, if they've been updated.
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>>>>>You can check their downloads area to see if there's a newer
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>>>>>I use apt-get to update via Fedora Legacy, for my Fedora 1, 2 and 3
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>>>>>On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Russell Golden wrote:
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>>>>>>It didn't update the kernel or GCC... are those out there
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>>>somewhere?
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>>>>>>Mike Burger wrote:
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>>>>>>>On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Russell Golden wrote:
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>>>>>>>>I have two Red Hat Linux 9 machines that are a tad outdated
>>>>>>>>(obviously, Shrike is a few years old), but I can't find any
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>>>>>>>>to update them, GCC and the Linux kernel specifically. Would the
>>>>>>>>RPMs for Fedora Core work (since Fedora is descended from
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>>>Shrike),
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>>>>>>>>or should I update from source?
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