redhat vs fedora install packages

[Russell Golden]

o_o really? wow... What system do you use right now?

A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:

>You can download Fedora RPM's and try to install them. Usually, if the
>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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>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: 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 version
>>>than what you have.
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>>>I use apt-get to update via Fedora Legacy, for my Fedora 1, 2 and 3
>>>systems.
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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I have two Red Hat Linux 9 machines that are a tad outdated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 RPMs
>>>>>>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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