I noticed that CentOS usually does not copy the EOL-announcement RHSA or provide the updated package associated with it.
This would be CESA-2011:0219 with upstream details at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0219.html
As everbody seemed to be concerned about the communication done for CentOS 3 End of Life I guess it is probably a good idea to: - duplicate the EOL-Notice RHSA as a CESA - rebuild centos-release to contain an EOL-notice - discuss wether or not to add an EOL-notice to /etc/issue
Regards, Andreas
-- SNIP (/usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/EOL) -- == End Of Life Notice ==
According to our support-policy the 7-year lifecycle of CentOS 4 will end on February 29, 2012.
After this date no security-updates or bugfixes will be released.
If you still run production systems on CentOS 4 you're strongly advised to plan an upgrade to CentOS 5 or CentOS 6. -- SNIP --
-- SNIP (/etc/issue) -- CentOS release 4.x (Final) Kernel \r on an \m NOTICE: Support for CentOS 4 ends on Feb 28th, 2012
-- SNIP --
On 03/01/2011 02:41 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
I noticed that CentOS usually does not copy the EOL-announcement RHSA or provide the updated package associated with it.
This would be CESA-2011:0219 with upstream details at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0219.html
As everbody seemed to be concerned about the communication done for CentOS 3 End of Life I guess it is probably a good idea to:
- duplicate the EOL-Notice RHSA as a CESA
- rebuild centos-release to contain an EOL-notice
- discuss wether or not to add an EOL-notice to /etc/issue
Regards, Andreas
-- SNIP (/usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/EOL) -- == End Of Life Notice ==
According to our support-policy the 7-year lifecycle of CentOS 4 will end on February 29, 2012.
After this date no security-updates or bugfixes will be released.
If you still run production systems on CentOS 4 you're strongly advised to plan an upgrade to CentOS 5 or CentOS 6. -- SNIP --
-- SNIP (/etc/issue) -- CentOS release 4.x (Final) Kernel \r on an \m NOTICE: Support for CentOS 4 ends on Feb 28th, 2012
-- SNIP --
This sounds like a great idea to me ... I'll create it as part of these updates I am pushing right now.
On 03/02/2011 10:22 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 03/01/2011 02:41 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
I noticed that CentOS usually does not copy the EOL-announcement RHSA or provide the updated package associated with it.
This would be CESA-2011:0219 with upstream details at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0219.html
As everbody seemed to be concerned about the communication done for CentOS 3 End of Life I guess it is probably a good idea to:
- duplicate the EOL-Notice RHSA as a CESA
- rebuild centos-release to contain an EOL-notice
- discuss wether or not to add an EOL-notice to /etc/issue
Regards, Andreas
-- SNIP (/usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/EOL) -- == End Of Life Notice ==
According to our support-policy the 7-year lifecycle of CentOS 4 will end on February 29, 2012.
After this date no security-updates or bugfixes will be released.
If you still run production systems on CentOS 4 you're strongly advised to plan an upgrade to CentOS 5 or CentOS 6. -- SNIP --
-- SNIP (/etc/issue) -- CentOS release 4.x (Final) Kernel \r on an \m NOTICE: Support for CentOS 4 ends on Feb 28th, 2012
-- SNIP --
This sounds like a great idea to me ... I'll create it as part of these updates I am pushing right now.
OK guys ... lets review this and see if it will be OK. If it looks good I will build it for i386 and add it to the updates repo with CESA.
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/EOL/
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On 3 March 2011 05:08, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
OK guys ... lets review this and see if it will be OK. If it looks good I will build it for i386 and add it to the updates repo with CESA.
I notice that Lance Davis still gets a mention in the CentOS-Base.repo file . . .
Alan.
Am 03.03.2011 06:08, schrieb Johnny Hughes:
On 03/02/2011 10:22 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 03/01/2011 02:41 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
This sounds like a great idea to me
Thank you!
OK guys ... lets review this and see if it will be OK. If it looks good I will build it for i386 and add it to the updates repo with CESA.
I had a second look and noticed I got the EOL-date wrong for /etc/issue. It is Feb 29th and not 28th.
Regards, Andreas
On 03/03/2011 01:59 PM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
Am 03.03.2011 06:08, schrieb Johnny Hughes:
On 03/02/2011 10:22 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 03/01/2011 02:41 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
This sounds like a great idea to me
Thank you!
OK guys ... lets review this and see if it will be OK. If it looks good I will build it for i386 and add it to the updates repo with CESA.
I had a second look and noticed I got the EOL-date wrong for /etc/issue. It is Feb 29th and not 28th.
OK. so the date needs to change to the 29th and I can take Lance's name out of the CentOS-Base (and check the other .repo files).
Anything else?
On 3 March 2011 22:13, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
OK. so the date needs to change to the 29th and I can take Lance's name out of the CentOS-Base (and check the other .repo files).
Anything else?
Nothing else is apparent to me by "eye-ball sanity testing".
Alan.
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