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 -------------- 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/ef04ea19/attachment-0007.sig>