Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: >> if a user has software from non red hat/fedora vendor, > > That unfortunately is what cannot be guaranteed to work. it would not be guaranteed to work if it depended on libs, etc, from fedora. but, it 3rd party software had it's own lib, etc, and used 'standard' systems calls, 3ps would be independent from changes of lib, etc. > They may\should possible have a support contract with said vendors. that is without a doubt. > The ideal is to wipe and upgrade in this instance. not for op. anyway, to my questioning, could updating system, to gain security fixes and enhancements, not be done by pulling from archives and stepping thru to a current version? -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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