Chris Snook wrote: > David wrote: >> Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> >From last I heard Wednesday, Jan 7 is EOL for F8. So be warned. >> >> >> In all honesty... EOL means End Of Line... Which means no more bugfix >> updates and no more security patches. >> >> It does *not* mean that fedora 8 will stop working on January 7th, 2009. >> >> ;-) >> > > Do the F8 repos disappear on Jan 7th as well? I'd hate to be the admin > who doesn't notice until Jan. 8th, and needs some tool that's not > installed in order to migrate gracefully.
Aaron is correct. The official repos do not, in general, disappear. It, I gather, depends on the admins of the mirror(s) what they keep or don't keep. I know of mirrors that still have fedora packages going back to Fedora Core 6 packages. The 3rd party repos are a different animal completely. What they do, or don't do, is entirely up to them. My point was that the Fedora 8 system will not magically 'poof' and stop working. But it would be for a user of Feodra 8, IMHO, a good time to plan an upgrade. Why? As I said not only are there no bug fixes, things that are broken stay broken, there are no security fixes either. Meaning? Something found in a 'newer version' now is more than likely to also be in the 'older version'. The 'older won't be fixed'. EOL. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
