Re: NOTCE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Three-Month Retirement Notice

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On 23 December 2016 at 17:41, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III
> <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> "PR" == Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> PR> Reminder that RHEL 5 and hence EPEL 5 has got 3 months until EOL.
>> PR> Packages now should really just be in bugfix and security fix only
>> PR> mode.
>>
>> Should we be preventing the branching of new packages for EPEL5 at this
>> point?  We can probably get that switch thrown in phgdb.  It would be
>> analogous to the month of "updates but no new packages" in the (current
>> - 2) Fedora release.
>>
>>  - J<
>
> It's probably a good idea to do that. I'd probably hazard to guess
> that the flow of new packages going into EL5 target has already
> slowed, and formally stopping the addition of new packages would
> merely enforce the policy that Peter mentioned at the beginning of the
> thread.
>
>
>

So this is pretty imminent now.

Is the plan to drop EPEL5 packages entirely or to archive the last
status of the repo like old fedora releases get archived?
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