Fedora.us is Extras for the old RH8-FC2 distributions. If you are using
newer Fedora distributions then ignore this message.
Warning to Fedora.us FC3 APT Users
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download.fedora.us has been replicating FC3 Updates and FE3 for apt
users. This has become a significant burden to fedora.us as it has
become 99% of sync traffic in past months. This is redundant and a
waste of storage and bandwidth resources.
For this reason I have decided that download.fedora.us mirrors will
completely remove FC3 and FE3 from the apt-only fedora.us mirror network
on September 10th.
The Fedora Project recommends that users migrate away from apt to newer
tools like yum or smartpm. Even upstream Conectiva has given up on apt,
instead worked on their new client smartpm rewritten from scratch.
Apt-rpm has bugs (virtual provides bugs like #164601) and missing
functionality (like multilib) that may never be fixed, making it
impossible to support for the Fedora Project.
Yum and smartpm have the direct benefit of being able to use the
repodata on official Fedora Project mirrors. Extras has "yumex" and
"kyum" graphical user interfaces available, while smartpm has its own
GUI interface. (Hmm... any volunteers to put smartpm into Extras?)
http://apt.freshrpms.net/
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/
For users who insist upon continuing to use apt for FC3, we advise
switching to the FreshRPMS repository which has Core & Extras among
other repositories.
Fedora.us Discontinuing RH8 Extras
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Effective immediately fedora.us will no longer make security updates for
RH8 Extras. Fedora Legacy has stopped maintenance of RH8 due to lack of
interest long ago, so it makes no sense for Extras to continue security
updates for RH8 either.
Fedora.us Status
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http://www.fedora.us
Fedora.us remains in development only for security updates of old Extras
for RH9-FC2. Read the above URL for reporting details if you see a
security issue that needs fixing.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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