Progeny offers Red Hat Linux 7.x support [LWN.net]

Progeny offers Red Hat Linux 7.x support

Posted Dec 3, 2003 20:32 UTC (Wed) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029)
Parent article: Progeny offers Red Hat Linux 7.x support

What I'd like to see, in terms of continued support and migration, is something like an enhanced version of apt-rpm that lets RedHat users slowly (or quickly) upgrade/migrate to one of the Debian releases, or perhaps to another distro. I realize this would be a royal pain, since RedHat back-patches are likely to differ from other distros' patches, but for a release that's become stale this should at least be possible. It might require such grotesqueries as mypackage-0.1-redhat7-migratory.deb for intermediate steps. Updating everything to an official major release (ie, no vendor back-patches) before distro migration would probably be the best first step.

Does anyone know if something like this has been tried, or if it's been done and I just missed it? I've got two RedHat 7.3 machines, and the mirror I was using has already stopped carrying pre-8, so distro migration's been on my mind of late.

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Progeny offers Red Hat Linux 7.x support

Posted Dec 3, 2003 21:08 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

I don't think this is practical, even if it is technically possible. There are too many differences between Debian and Red Hat base systems to do a gradual upgrade, and the cost of creating all the necessary "transition" packages would be HUGE. Then there are the bugs...

As long as /home and /usr/local are preserved, migrating to a different distro isn't that big of a deal anyway, unless you have a lot of configuration changes and/or systems to upgrade.

Red Hat to Debian migration

Posted Dec 5, 2003 6:09 UTC (Fri) by mceesay (guest, #2806) [Link]

If you have a look at what is happening over at http://platform.progeny.com, reading between the lines it looks like an effort to increase the compatibility of Debian and Red Hat, and in the mid-term ease migration from Red Hat to Debian.

There will may never be a fully automated migration solution provided, but I'm sure that Progeny would be happy to provide migration services on a consultancy basis.