On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:47, Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
Basically, it's easiest to rpm --rebuild the 6.4 rpm on an older system. The binary rpm should work seamlessly.
Roman: could you expand on this idea a bit? I have a server still running 6.2, and have been concerned lately about not being able to keep it up to date with current patches.
I took care of the recent SSH problems by compiling current SSH and SSL from source, and simply disabled PHP to deal with that vulnerability.
Are you saying there is an easy procedure for using 6.4 RPMs on "end of life'ed" distributions? If so, I'd be very happy to hear about it. Or should I make plans to move the domains to other, more current machines?
Yes, there is an easy way to do it. Download the 6.4 SOURCE RPM (ends in .src.rpm) type rpm --rebuild libz-1.1.3-575.src.rpm This will compile libz and build a regular put the resulting RPM in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/ (or whatever your arch is). then, just upgrade like you would with any other package: rpm -Uhv libz-1.1.3-575.i386.rpm I just did this on a 6.3 system the other day and it worked perfectly. libz is pretty simple, though. Not all packages will work as cleanly. --Jeremy