Red Hat Linux and older Fedora Core distributions that have been announced as End of Life no longer receive errata/updates from either Red Hat or the Fedora Core project. The Fedora Legacy Project steps in to fill this gap. It is an open source collaboration with the goal of providing those security fixes and critical bug fixes for systems still running these packages, thus extending their lifetime and usefulness. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux group is providing a mirror of these packages that is updated each morning after midnight.

There are two types of updates available from this site. Updates that have been tested and consider stable are available in the updates tree. The updates themselves are continually being modified and these packages are collected in the testing tree. You should choose which of these software trees you wish to use before downloading the updates.

The collections in the Fedora Legacy repositories are all RPMs that have been organized in a two ways for use by multiple retrieval and installation methods. These include the apt repository system that is accessible using apt-rpm, and the yum repository system accessible using the yum tools. Red Hat's up2date, tool works with Fedora and can be configured to use either type of repository. Information on how to use these tools specifically with the Fedora Legacy updates for each distribution is available at the Fedora Legacy documentation page.

It is assumed that you have experience with one of these tools If not, the links in the above paragraph are good places to start. Here we provide you with the information on what you need to include in your configuration files to use this mirror server.

All Fedora Legacy RPMs are signed with the Fedora Legacy GPG public key. To use the key, you will need to download it and import it into your key ring. Information about obtaining and installing the key can be found on the Fedora Legacy Security page Information on what you need to include in your /etc/yum.conf configuration file can be found at the Fedora Legacy downloads page. To use this mirror, you should modify /etc/yum.conf to include something similar to the following for Red Hat Linux: For Fedora Core, modify /etc/yum.conf to include Note that we have entries commented out. You should do the same for software trees you are not using in order to prevent yourself from shooting yourself in the foot. Information on what you need to include in your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources configuration file can be found at the Fedora Legacy documentation page. To use this mirror, you should modify /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to include something similar to the following for Red Hat Linux: For Fedora Core, modify /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to include Note that we have several entries commented out. You should do the same for version branches you are not using in order to prevent yourself from shooting yourself in the foot. Information on what you need to include in your /etc/apt/sources.list configuration file can be found at the Fedora Legacy downloads page. To use this mirror, you should modify /etc/apt/sources.list to include something similar to the following for Red Hat Linux: replacing 9 with your respective release version.

For Fedora Core, modify /etc/apt/sources.list to include a line similar to

replacing 1 with your respective release version You may also simply download the RPMs via http or ftp. and install them yourself using rpm. There is more information available about the Fedora Legacy Project at the Fedora Legacy web site. You are especially encouraged to subscribe to the mailing lists to receive announcements about updates as they are made available.

You may also contact the person who maintains this mirror.