On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 17:30 +0300, Erez D wrote: > hi > > i was asked to install svn/trac on some company's production server > which is 'original rhel4 ES server' > > apparently, they stopped paying for support some time ago, so they can > no longer update via up2date. > > as i am better acquainted with apt than yum or up2date, i installed > apt + rpmforge repos > trying to install subversion. apr and apr-util were missing (which i > took from centos4) > > when installing trac, it wanted to update the initscripts package. > this frightened me as i was afraid of inconsistencies between rhel and > centos, which could render this critical server inoperatabe > > so: > 1. do i need pay RH for updates (they paid for the server software)
RHEL has a number of known security issues that were solved between RHEL 4.1 and 4.7. If the said company rather not pay for support - I'd strongly suggest you backup all the different configurations and files and use CentOS 4.7 instead. While you're at it, consider switching to CentOS 5.2. IMHO RHEL 5 (and CentOS 5) are both far better than their 4.x predecessors. > 1. can i mix centos and rhel ? Don't. You'll most likely pull CentOS 4.6/7 files and mix them with vanilla RHEL 4 files. Bad things will follow. > 2. can i find original rhel es server packages somehwere ? Legally? Not sure it's possible. > > thanks, > erez. > - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
