[CentOS-devel] EOL plans for C3

Fri Aug 20 05:31:55 UTC 2010
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 20/08/10 01:41, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 11:57 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 08/11/2010 08:12 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> CentOS-3 goes EOL in about 3 months.
>>>
>>
>> This is an interesting development and perhaps something worth mentioning ?
>>
>>
>> http://press.redhat.com/2010/08/19/red-hat-enterprise-linux-extended-life-cycle-support-launched/
>>
> I wonder if "Extended Life Cycle Support is delivered through Red Hat
> Network, similar to the way regular Red Hat Enterprise Linux content is
> provided." means "we'll publish the source packages just as we did
> before". Given the "similar to" part, I guess they will, right ?
>

I assumed the opposite - similar to Extended Update Support (EUS) for 
point releases where upstream don't publish the source rpms.

I guess we will have to wait and see :-)