> 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 understand that CentOS-5 is no longer active.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