On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:21:07PM +1000, Paul wrote:
> On 8/08/2006 1:33 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >with the advent of FC6t2 today Fedora Legacy is dropping support for
> >FC1 and FC2. RH8.0 has been dropped since some time already and RH7.3
> >and RH9 will be dropped between Oct 1st and the end of the year (the
> >first date is the deadline for submitting new bug reports)
> >
> >W/o a security update plan ATrpms is going to drop support for these
> >distros, too. According to stats from the master mirror this will
> >affect about 10% of ATrpms users, so this is a plea to upgrade to more
> >recent versions of Fedora Core and/or RHEL and clones.
> >
> >The plan for a staged EOL for FC1, FC2, RH7.3, RH8.0 and RH9 is as
> >follows:
> >
> >immediately: no builds for new (not updated) packages
> >20060901:    updated packages failing to build under these distros
> >             don't get fixed
> >20061001:    no more updates
> >20070101:    removal
> >
> >The dates are earliest dates, e.g. support may (or may not) continue
> >after the named dates.
> >
> >Note that since I only have a limited set of RHEL licenses I will drop
> >support for RHEL3 when RHEL5 is released in beta channels. RHEL3 (or
> >clones) ATrpms users are less than 1% and RHEL3 support was never
> >officially announced, so it shouldn't affect too many people.
> >
> >Please upgrade to FC5/RHEL4 or FC6/RHEL5 within the next
> >months. Thanks!

> Do you know if we need to reconfigure Yum to point the FC4 repos for the 
> Fedora Updates and Extras

Are you trying to upgrade to FC4 from one of the about to be EOL'd
distros (why FC4 and not FC5?).

In any case: If you install the atrpms-package-config for the target
distribution you've everything properly configured for an upgrade.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

Attachment: pgpCFt49Sv9tR.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
atrpms-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users

Reply via email to