Re: [Fedora-legacy-list] System

[Kevin Waterson <kevin oceania net>]

This one time, at band camp, Chuck Wolber <chuckw quantumlinux com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > same thing here, all I need is security errata to support older rh (7.2
> > / 9) systems while we migrate them to rhel or fedora (we haven't decided
> > yet) Does anybody knows if it's legally possible to rebuild RHEL from
> > the SRPMS provided by RH on their ftp site and then distribute this new
> > binary version.

>Yes it's legal with a few caveats, such as removing Red Hat's copyrighted 
> material (images etc). I'd recommend checking out: http://caosity.org

I did this with an in-house version of 6.2, it worked quite well. It was a 
bit intensive removing all the redhat stuff, but once done, was trivial to
maintain

Kind regards
Kevin


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Kevin Waterson
Port Macquarie, Australia