Re: Use of rpm with Redhat Enterprise ES 2.1

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Use of rpm with Redhat Enterprise ES 2.1, Kenneth Andresen...:

>Hello,
>
>We recently upgraded our server from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat Enterprise ES 2.1,
>and wonder wether we can install rpm's for Redhat 7/8/9 for it.

Since ES 2.1 is basically RH 7.2 with a bunch of packages upgraded, if
there's not an RPM for the product you want included with ES 2.1, I would
grab the *source* RPM from 7.3, and rebuild it on ES 2.1.  Binary packages
built for 7.2 or 7.3 have a chance of working, but if you can recompile
from source RPM you're better off.

ES 3 is closer to RH 8.0, but it has a lot of very recent kernel changes
backported (think: NPTL), so there you would be better off starting with
an 8.0 or RH 9 source RPM and rebuilding.

Tim
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