On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 04:24:56PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:45:51PM +0200, ton01@ukr.net wrote: > > Hi! I'm interested in a question about the archive/old versions [...] [...] > This does make it hard if you come across an old machine that hasn't been > updated in several years or for some reason or another your machine is > pinned to a particular version - but, in general, you can update to the > latest point release for a particular version - so 5.10 - then update to 6.*, > 7.* and so on up until 11.6 And: depending on your needs, the "last point release" is most probably good enough: given the stability of a stable release, the packages there will be most probably installable on your old system anyway. If you want to do things where the exact bit-for-bit content of binaries matter (what)? then it is more difficult, of course. Reproducible builds wasn't a thing, back then. Cheers -- t
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