Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

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Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

Post by alpha01 » 2010/11/05 00:18:37

Hello,

Does anyone know if the CentOS team is still backporting security patches to packages from RHEL3? I believe RedHat has officially killed support for RHEL3 this past month.

I have a White Box Enterprise Linux release 3.0 (Liberation Respin 2) server that hasn't been updated in more than 5 years. (Blame old sysadmins)

Since this server has a legacy in house application that practically makes it impossible to migrate to a new server without breaking things, I was thinking of just upgrading the core applications that are publicly accessible. Which are Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Does anyone foresee any problems if I incrementally upgrade the core packages (and dependent packages) with CentOS' updates?

Name : php Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 4.3.2 Vendor: whiteboxlinux.org
Release : 23.ent Build Date: Wed 11 May 2005 09:54:00 PM EDT
Install Date: Wed 18 May 2005 08:21:39 AM EDT Build Host: bob.whiteboxlinux.org
Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: php-4.3.2-23.ent.src.rpm
Size : 5428833 License: The PHP License
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 12 May 2005 01:59:04 PM EDT, Key ID ae52a76d73307de6
URL : http://www.php.net/
Summary : The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language. (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)


Name : httpd Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.0.46 Vendor: whiteboxlinux.org
Release : 46.ent.WB1 Build Date: Thu 30 Jun 2005 05:54:19 PM EDT
Install Date: Wed 13 Jul 2005 09:41:31 AM EDT Build Host: bob.whiteboxlinux.org
Group : System Environment/Daemons Source RPM: httpd-2.0.46-46.ent.WB1.src.rpm
Size : 2581634 License: Apache Software License
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat 02 Jul 2005 02:45:07 PM EDT, Key ID ae52a76d73307de6
URL : http://httpd.apache.org/
Summary : Apache HTTP Server


Name : rh-postgresql-server Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 7.3.10 Vendor: whiteboxlinux.org
Release : 1 Build Date: Fri 17 Jun 2005 02:24:58 AM EDT
Install Date: Wed 13 Jul 2005 09:42:01 AM EDT Build Host: bob.whiteboxlinux.org
Group : Applications/Databases Source RPM: rh-postgresql-7.3.10-1.src.rpm
Size : 6290060 License: BSD
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat 02 Jul 2005 02:45:45 PM EDT, Key ID ae52a76d73307de6
URL : http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/
Summary : The programs needed to create and run a PostgreSQL server.



Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tony B.

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Re: Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

Post by TrevorH » 2010/11/05 00:27:35

RH offer extended update support for RHEL3 until October 31st 2013 if you pay them enough.

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Re: Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

Post by AlanBartlett » 2010/11/05 14:49:34

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Does anyone know if the CentOS team is still backporting security patches to packages from RHEL3?
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Short answer: No, they are not.

Slightly longer answer: [i]CentOS 3[/i] reached it EOL on Oct 31, 2010 and has now been laid to rest. Please see this [url=http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EOLC3]CentOS wiki page[/url].

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Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

Post by pschaff » 2010/11/05 14:49:44

Welcome to the CentOS fora. Reading [url=https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=47]FAQ & Readme First[/url] is recommended for new users.

CentOS has no plans for extended support [Edit: I see [b]Alan[/b] already told you that while I was composing.]. You can at least get the updates that have been issued in the last 5 years. If I were responsible for this system I'd put it in a VM for additional security and easy snapshot/restore if hacked.

This is in the wrong forum. Moving it to CentOS 3 General.

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Re: Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

Post by AlanBartlett » 2010/11/05 16:16:53

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This is in the wrong forum. Moving it to CentOS 3 General.
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Correcting the :oops: Now moved to [i]Social[/i], as the the [i]CentOS 3[/i] fora have also been laid to rest.

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Re: Upgrading legacy RHEL3 packages

Post by alpha01 » 2010/11/23 23:43:41

Thanks for your responce everyone.

Like pschaff suggested, I went ahead and updated the system to where at least it has all the major updates issues to the release these past five years.


Now that this server will not be supported/updated, I guess its just a matter of time for our organization to kill this server like we did with our 10 + year old Solaris boxes :-)

-Tony

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