G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > That would be nice except for one thing, these distributions check the > bios for newness and when it is not sufficiently new installation of > these becomes a big problem. On the other hand, RH7.3 is stable but does > need to support more modern apps. I have upgraded a number of RH7.3 machines straight to CentOS-3 using "yum" without a reinstall. There were a few conflicts that had to be deinstalled before the upgrade, but it was not a big deal. 7.3 binaries seem to be compatible (some of our custom in-house applications were installed on 7.3 and they still run under CentOS-3 without a recompile. So it is not difficult to migrate to a supported operation system in my opinion. The biggest hurdle is if you are running a web server, you are going from apache 1.3 to apache 2.0. You can just exclude those from the upgrade though using yum.conf. Due the the fact that we used "yum" to upgrade, no bios check was involved. Some of the machines I've upgraded this way are over 7 years old. My feeling and understanding is that RH7.3 support should continue to be for "security fixes" only. Legacy 7.3 support is meant to plug the security holes until you can migrate to an officially supported distribution. There simply is not enough manpower to do any more than that. One thing that *could* help for legacy, is if we allowed security fixes to be released for a specific release as they are ready. E.g.: if we have enough PUBLISH and VERIFY votes for 7.3, we could release the 7.3 update. This would help avoid the current situation where packages have been QA'd for 7.3, but are held up waiting on FC1, FC2, or RH9 for example. I'd really like to see that happen personally, but it is not up to me :). Regards, Michael Schout -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
