Am 01.03.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org:
On 03/01/2017 09:21 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
Am 01.03.2017 um 12:28 schrieb Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org:
Just a message to remind everyone that CentOS-5 has an End of Life date of March 31, 2017.
This means that there will be no new security updates released by Red Hat for RHEL-5 after that date.
Sometime in early April, the current 5.11 tree will be moved onto vault.centos.org (like CentOS-3 and CentOS-4 have been since their EOL).
Will the centos-release package be updated to point to the vault tree?
I am not sure we want to enable that by default. We want people to understand that CentOS-5 is no longer active.
There is a CentOS-Vault.repo file that one can use, or people can change it manually.
Ah okay, that helps.
If it happens automatically, well then people will just leave it in place.
Sure, it shouldn't. More than that - if provided it should provide actively that EOL information (e.g. /etc/issue /etc/motd et cetera).
-- LF