+1 for just removing old repos. I would do something like CentOS where you have an archive or 'unsupported' space for people that simply can't upgrade for whatever reason.
yum.puppetlabs.com/unsupported for the RPM users, for example. Trevor On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:12 AM, John Bollinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 5:09:31 PM UTC-5, Eric Sorenson wrote: >> >> Well, that was the whole collections idea in a nutshell, but every one of >> those new repos would inevitably leave some people stranded on an old one. >> Terrifyingly, there are still something like 100,000 hosts[1] hitting the >> EOL'ed 3.x repos, which will never get any updates... there's no clearly >> great answer here but optimizing to protect people who have 'ensure => >> latest' against upstream repos doesn't seem like the right thing. >> > > We've had this discussion before. Nevertheless, I submit that the > proposition is not to "optimize" for people who rely on the upstream repos, > but rather to faithfully fulfill the responsibilities that many people > presume you undertake by providing software repos in the first place. In > this case that also carries the benefit of avoiding torpedoing some 100K or > so Puppet installations, and regardless of technical considerations, I > question the wisdom of such a move on business and community relations > grounds. > > If you don't want to maintain repos for the EOL software versions (which > is reasonable), then it would be much better to simply remove those repos > than to drop incompatible package versions into them. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/puppet-dev/070d678d-68eb-4147-913e-d453f6c411ff%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/070d678d-68eb-4147-913e-d453f6c411ff%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 x788 -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoUTk6FrGRWtthFJK9doATAmNdLoisHUrMh7eh-6kzHTmg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
