[mythtv-users] Re: OT: Migrating from Red Hat 9.0 to Fedora

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:51:56AM -0500, Michael Starks wrote:
> I was just reminded that as of May 1, Red Hat 9.0 will be end-of-life. 
> As I know there is significant Red Hat experience here, I was hoping 
> someone could chime in on the following...
> 
> 1. Is it reasonable to expect that people will still package security 
> updates for Red Hat 9.0, even if the company itself doesn't?  Any word 
> of a reputable source for these?

Yes, have a look at fedoralegacy.org

> 2. How difficult is upgrading to Fedora as it relates to Myth, 
> specifically.  Can I just put in the CD and so an in-place upgrade or is 
> that mostly a pipe dream?

This will update all your Fedora base rpms, then adjust the
sources.list and dist-upgrade to upgrade the rest. You can even skip
the part with the Fedora CDs and use only apt for upgrading, but it is
a tiny bit involved (but that's how all my own systems but one got Fedora
on them ;). Hint: Update kernel, the glibc, then "upgrade" and finaly
"dist-upgrade". Watch the output at every step to correct possible
packging bugs (e.g. perl vs perl-CGI etc.)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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