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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20110302/44e8e2f2/attachment-0007.sig>