EOL... now what?

[skeet_61]

As you may or may not know, Red Hat will stop supporting all versions below 9 as of December 31st, 2003 (3 weeks away!).

We are running 7.3 here hosting several dozen clients, I'm looking for a new solution that will stay current and up to date with new package releases and fixes.

I'm looking into slackware 9.1... I like the RHN up2date feature which you can setup to automatically download and install updates to packages, is their something like this for slackware or is this only a redhat thing?

Thanks,
-Brock

[ph34r]

There are a couple of Slackware tools to do automatic updates. However, there was a /. article yesterday that indicated that Progeny will be supplying fixes, etc. for Redhat 7.x, 8.0 and 9.0 for a really low price ($5/machine/month)

[skeet_61]

Is this something installed with slackware, or do you know where I could find it?

Thank You,
-Brock

[ph34r]

Check for slapt and swaret at linuxpackages.net

[Satanic Atheist]

The great thing about Slackware is that the installation and package manager (PKGTool) have no issues over dependencies so you can upgrade .tgz packages any way you want.

However, by far the BEST solution is to use checkinstall to build RPMs, DEBs and TGZs from source! That way you can build the RPM from source code and save them as RPMs, offering them out to other people via the Internet or storing them safely for reinstallation should the worst happen.

James