[CentOS] CentOS-5 End of Life

Thu Mar 9 16:29:58 UTC 2017
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 03.03.2017 um 13:19 schrieb James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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/


JFI: 

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YTEBPQPLP7NIVR3C533EBHEAERPH26P3/

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