Re: [LUG] Upgrading Apache on Red Hat 9

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ben Goodger wrote:
|
| PS. This applies to Fedora Core 3 but RHEL is very nearly the same
| thing and it should run without problems. If not please have a look at
| the RHEL support site.

But the O.P has Redhat 9. Redhat 9 is out of support (from Redhat).

Bruce Perens company offers security updates for RH9 (I can get
details if required - I think it is 5USD per box presumably plus a
sign-up fee), but I'd guess if the versions required aren't on my
RH9 box at work, there is no official RPM for these versions of
packages. I'm guessing Bruce's lot will have to have done a PHP
update of some sort.

Philip

what is your idea of "minimal disruption?", seconds, minutes, hours?

Whilst building (or finding!) replacement packages for these
programs should be possible, you'd have to test to make sure they do
what you want, and being "unsupported" is not where you want to stay.

If you can get packages built in the style of Redhat 9 rpms (places
like RPM find, or even Google), then it is probably a case of,
backing up the system (just in case), and just install the package.
I'd expect no more than a minute or so downtime assuming it is all
tested in advance, so no unpleasant surprises happen.

In principle you can build from source, but my own experience at
trying to build software for RH9 from source that mimics RH's own
packages well enough to play nicely is that it isn't as easy as you
might expect.

If you can find someone familiar with rpm packaging, and the
applications, it should be only a few hours work to build packages
for each of these things, and do some basic testing. Assuming they
haven't changed radically from the previous versions Redhat packaged.

I'd suggest a migration strategy to a better supported version of
GNU/Linux might be a better way to address the immediate need.

If you do decide to stick with RH9, it should be easy to build a
test system - indeed I've done it many times with RH9, so let the
list know what the problems are you are experiencing.

Welcome to the group.

        Simon
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