linux_base end of life?

Thomas Vogt turbo23 at gmx.net
Sun Feb 1 05:04:58 PST 2004


Helo

Trevor Johnson wrote:
> There are a couple (RHSA-2003:325 and RHSA-2003:287) that haven't been
> fully brought into the ports collection.
> 
> It's possible for us to prepare our own RPMs.
> 
> Red Hat 7.2 for the Alpha is supposed to be maintained by Hewlett-Packard.
> I'm not sure whether they still keep up with updates for it.  They did as
> recently as September.

Fedoralegacy offers security fixes for the redhat end of life systems 
7.2, 7.3 and 8.0. Perhaps the easiest thing to keep the linux_base with 
security fixes is to update the base system to 7.2.
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/about/

cheers,
Thomas Vogt


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