[Sussex] Access to RHEL updates without subscription

[Paul Tansom]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 03:34 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, 30 May, 2005 1:14, Paul Tansom said:
> > Is it possible to access RHEL WS 3 updates without a subscription. Don't
> 
> Pretty much. If you have stuff from the less free channels I doubt that
> will be here, but a little rpmbuild effort you can keep yourself up to
> date with:
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/3WS/en/os/SRPMS
> 
> I can see that you might have fun with that if you don't have all the
> build dependencies installed already because they don't seem to make the
> binary packages freely available. Perhaps a friendly person with a RHEL 3
> license could supply you with them ;)

Not my machines unfortunately, if they were they'd be wiped and
installed with Debian in the blink of an eye ;) I hadn't thought about
ftp'ing the sources down. I guess mainly because I assumed that up2date
would grab anything it was able to get, but it is clearly not that
sophisticated (as in being able to work with a mixture of subscription
and freely available packages). Since this is the kernel source I may
just be in luck - for now. Off to check I think - very odd not to think
of it as its the first place I went when working with RH6 in the past,
and boy did I spend a lot of time there trying to get SSH installed on
the box. Dependencies everywhere, all the way back to RPM itself :( That
and the fiasco with the new GCC in version 7 was what pushed me towards
trying Debian - I guess I should be grateful ;)

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