[CentOS] CentOS-5 End of Life
Leon Fauster
leonfauster at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 1 16:35:00 UTC 2017
> Am 01.03.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
>
> On 03/01/2017 09:21 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> Am 01.03.2017 um 12:28 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at 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 understand that CentOS-5 is no longer active.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
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