I did try to volunteer to build/test packages for RH8 last year but no-one replied to my request for further information on the procedures for arranging for packages to be uploaded/tested. Occasionally since then I've looked at the fl download site and again seen the lack of packages (even for RH73 or 9 -- which I don't use so don't really care about). I ended up building all the relevant ones myself (assuming that no-one else was interested). Before the RH9 EOL most of those packages (or a simple rebuild from the SRPM) were enough, since then I've picked SRPMs from RHEL-AS3, fedora-core and occasionally just applied the relevant patch to the last RH8 SRPM. Since I'm doing this just for the ~190 RH8 machines I look after I'm only building updates (mostly the security ones) for packages we actually install (so some are bound to be missing). Since the RH8 EOL, I have used updates for the followng: # From RH9 updates needing no rebuild tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.1 startup-notification-0.5-1 gaim-0.75-0.9.0 netpbm-9.24-10.90.1 gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-6.1.0 sysstat-4.0.7-4.rhl9.1 mozilla-1.4.2-0.9.0 cvs-1.11.2-17 lha-1.14i-9.1 mc-4.6.0-14.9 libpng-1.2.2-20 libpng10-1.0.13-11 # from RH9 rebuild SRPM (with minor changes) mutt-1.4.1-3.3.D80 XFree86-4.3.0-1.80.55.D fontconfig-2.1-9 freetype-2.1.3-6 ttmkfdir-3.0.9-1 kernel-2.4.20-30.8.JSP libxml2-2.5.4-3.rh8 kernel-2.4.20-31.8.JSP xchat-1.8.11-8 utempter-0.5.5-2.RHL8.0.JSP # from RHEL-AS3 SRPM cvs-1.11.2-22JSP rsync-2.5.7-4.80.JSP1 # Applied patch to last RH8 update kdelibs-3.0.5a-5.80.1JSP openssl-0.9.6b-36.8.JSP kdelibs-3.0.5a-6.80.1JSP # rebuild from fedora-core version (none are security related) octave-2.1.57-1.JSP aspell-0.50.5-1.JSP gnome-spell-0.4.1-5.JSP I didn't bother with openoffice, apache, ftpd, flim etc since we don't use the RH packages version (for complex reasons), so I just arranged to patch the copy we installed ourselves. Next month we might actually have time to start thinking of what we should switch our desktop machines to next... -- Jon -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
