[ATrpms-users] EOL plan for RH7.3-RH9, FC1-FC2, RHEL3, please upgrade

[Paul]

On 8/08/2006 1:33 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with the advent of FC6t2 today Fedora Legacy is dropping support for
> FC1 and FC2. RH8.0 has been dropped since some time already and RH7.3
> and RH9 will be dropped between Oct 1st and the end of the year (the
> first date is the deadline for submitting new bug reports)
>
> W/o a security update plan ATrpms is going to drop support for these
> distros, too. According to stats from the master mirror this will
> affect about 10% of ATrpms users, so this is a plea to upgrade to more
> recent versions of Fedora Core and/or RHEL and clones.
>
> The plan for a staged EOL for FC1, FC2, RH7.3, RH8.0 and RH9 is as
> follows:
>
> immediately: no builds for new (not updated) packages
> 20060901:    updated packages failing to build under these distros
>              don't get fixed
> 20061001:    no more updates
> 20070101:    removal
>
> The dates are earliest dates, e.g. support may (or may not) continue
> after the named dates.
>
> Note that since I only have a limited set of RHEL licenses I will drop
> support for RHEL3 when RHEL5 is released in beta channels. RHEL3 (or
> clones) ATrpms users are less than 1% and RHEL3 support was never
> officially announced, so it shouldn't affect too many people.
>
> Please upgrade to FC5/RHEL4 or FC6/RHEL5 within the next
> months. Thanks!
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Do you know if we need to reconfigure Yum to point the FC4 repos for the 
Fedora Updates and Extras

Paul
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