Red Hat 8.0 support in Fedora Legacy seems pathetic. We had a functioning
apt-get for RH 8, I tested it (and am still using it) and it seems to work.
It was put on hold for "upcoming changes upstream" and that's the last I
heard of it. Why couldn't we release it as it was (assuming it was working,
which it appears to be) and then release another version when the upstream
changes came in (can't apt-get update itself)?
8.0 support sucks b/c from what I can tell there are about 5 people on the planet using 8.0. It was not a widely installed release b/c a lot of people were waiting for an 8.1 at that point and then when 9 came out they jumped to that, instead.
I have several clients with RH8 systems in production. RH9 has been suggested but they are not interested in upgrading from EOL RH8 to soon-to-be EOL RH9.
Would it be simplify ongoing RH8 support by requiring an upgrade to the newer RPM (thus eliminating the RPM vs yum/apt version problem)?
We upgraded to rpm-4.1.1, yum 2.03, et.al. quite a while ago to get around the rpm lockup problems.
R.Parr, RHCE Temporal Arts
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