[ATrpms-users] Older distributions

[Carl Reynolds]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:17:27AM -0500, Carl Reynolds wrote:
> 
>>I have a couple of older machines that I can't upgrade right now because 
>>they have some proprietary software running that isn't ready for the new 
>>releases. One is running Fedora Core 3 and the others are running Fedora 
>>Core 6.
>>
>>Can you, please, tell me where I can find repositories for the older 
>>releases of Fedora Core? I need to add a couple of packages to the 
>>machines. Do I need to find the source for the packages and compile them 
>>on the older machines or is there a place where these older packages are 
>>stored?
> 
> 
> The Fedora Core 3/6 distros are unsupported, so I would say that in
> this sense no such repo can exist anymore.
> 
> But your "lucky", as RHEL4 is based on FC3 and RHEL5 on FC6, so the
> set of package versions is quite similar. You might even use the
> package w/o rebuilding although rebuilding on the target distro is
> always recommended! And if you know that you may need to stay even
> longer in this distro past, then you may even consider sidegarding to
> RHEL4/5 (or the CentOS/SL equivalents) to sleep better at nights
> having vendor protected kernels and network daemons.

Thanks Axel,
I'll check those out.