On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:44 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? They'll get archived as a snapshot of how it stands at EOL just like previous EPEL releases: http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/ _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
