On 3 March 2017 at 12:10, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ I totally forgot EPEL4 even existed back then ... thanks _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
