On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:27 -0600, Nicholas Blatter wrote: > I use debmirror to maintain a local mirror of the Ubuntu repositories. > A cron job runs a script I wrote every couple hours and it seems to > work really well with one exception. Ubuntu moves their > out-of-support releases to a new repository so that only the current > releases of Ubuntu are in the main repo. The problem is that we still > have a few people using these older releases, and I don't want to > break their systems by dropping all these older files.
*snip* > Anyone have any thoughts? 4) Let things break. If they want to avoid the upgrade treadmill, they should be using an LTS release. Using an old distro endangers not only them, but everyone sharing resources with them. So long as they're connected to the Internet, that includes me and I don't appreciate your attempt to make it even easier for scumbags to create spam zombies, etc. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
