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| Q: | What is the update policy for The Fedora Legacy Project? | ||||||
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In general, we will provide security updates and critical bug fixes for selected versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core. No new features or packages will be introduced except where they are required for future management of updates. In order to publish security packages in a timely manner, they have different priorities. Network exposed services have the highest priority, while client applications have a lower development priority. Extra packages have a lower priority than the base distribution. In most cases, the version of a package is never upgraded, in order to limit the possible side-effects of an upgrade. Instead packages may be only patched, unless consensus dictates that we must do otherwise. Updates are allowed primarily for security reasons, but sometimes bugfix updates can be allowed if consensus agrees it is serious enough. |
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| Q: | What versions of Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core are supported? | ||||||
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At this time, Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0, as these have reached their End-Of-Life (EOL). Support for Red Hat Linux 9 will end on April, 31, 2004; we plan to provide legacy support for it, too. Support for Fedora Core releases will be provided on an 1-2-3-out scheme, providing roughly 1.5 years of update service. |
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| Q: | What architectures are supported? | ||||||
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Obviously, legacy support for outdated distributions will only support the platform that the original distribution supported. This will be i386 for Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0 and 9. Red Hat Linux 7.2 was available for i386, ia64 and s390, but we're only able to support i386. Current Fedora Core releases may support other architectures, mainly amd64. We will provide legacy support for all platforms that Fedora Core is available on. |
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| Q: | How do I update packages? | ||||||
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We strongly suggest to install apt or yum on your system. These are RPM-based package management systems who can help you keeping your system up to date. Please follow the detailed instructions on the Download page. If you don't want to use apt or yum, you can still manually download and upgrade packages. You can find updates of existing packages in the RPMS.updates directory (Fedora Legacy packages are marked with the word "legacy" in the RPM filename); additional packages that did not exist in the original distribution, such as yum, can be found in the RPMS.legacy directory.
Please use a mirror close to you, if possible. Maybe we should insert a dynamically generated link to a random mirror here, or to a somehow locally preselected, to shift load from download.fedora.us – I guess most people simple copy and paste the preconfigured lines instead of actively selecting a mirror. |
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| Q: | How do I get notifications about new updates when they become available? | ||||||
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We have created a mailing list, fedora-legacy-announce, which you can subscribe to get informed about newly published packages. Additionally, you can set up a cron job to let apt or yum tell you if there are new packages. An example may be provided on the "Using Fedora Legacy" page – I'll include a link here if the information is ready. |
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| Q: | Where can I get more info on apt/yum? | ||||||
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Please visit our Download page to get more information and usage examples. |
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| Q: | What is the difference between Fedora Legacy and the Progeny Transition Service? | ||||||
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| Q: | How long will Fedora Legacy provide update support for outdated distributions? | ||||||
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We will provide support as long as there is community interest and enough manpower to do the work; at least 1.5 years for Red Hat Linux EOL products. Legacy support for Fedora Core releases will follow an 1-2-3-out model, which means, when Red Hat no longer supports Fedora Core 3, we'll pick it up, dropping legacy support for Fedora Core 1, and so on:
In short, Fedora Legacy will support 2 end-of-life Fedora Core releases at any given time. |