[CentOS] CentOS-5 End of Life

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <CAGkb5vfXkJcbpQWupuZG0xp8_gTgv+55+YrZf8VdF0maiO9UfQ at mail.gmail.com>,
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 March 2017 at 11:47, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3 March 2017 at 11:34, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> >>
> >>> You mean just thrown away, or archived somewhere? Just thrown away would
> >>> seem rather irresponsible...
> >>
> >> Mirroring EPEL makes sense well before this point, as they don't keep old
> >> versions of packages online either AFAIK.
> >>
> >> jh
> >
> > Indeed they aren't kept ... and since there hasn't been an EOL of EPEL
> > before I honestly have no idea ... I've asked on the epel-devel
> > mailing list as to whether it'll move to archive like old fedora
> > releases do.
> 
> My mistake - I forgot there was an EPEL4 in the mists of time .. so
> the last version of the repo is likely to end up here:
> 
> http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/

Cool, thanks!

Tony
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