On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 21:55 -0400, Shane wrote: > On 10/07/2015 07:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > If you need something from the last time things were updated > > > > you need to find them and download them manually fromhttp://arc > > > > hives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/18/x86 > > > > _64/ and you'll need to resolve the dependencies yourself. > > > > > > > > Just because a repo is EOL doesn't mean that yum won't work. > > > > Repos continue to support installation of packages with > > > > dependency resolution. > > > > > > If they have been moved to "archive" and don't exist on mirrors > > they won't. And nobody is going to make them available as that is > > the purpose of EOL, to relieve people of having to maintain old, > > out of date, un-patched for security, software. > Well, when F18 repos stop working, or when I really need new > software that won't ever run on F18, and when I get a chance to quite > likely break my system with an upgrade or re-install, then that's > when > I'll update. For now, it is running - and that's better than being > broken. Actually, several critical security fixes were released after F18 was EOLed. This is just a random selection: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-April/003206.ht ml http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/cve-2015-0235-patch-ghost-on-debian-ubuntu -fedora-centos-rhel-linux/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-6271 poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
