On 1/19/06, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No silver bullets I'm afraid but perhaps a comment on the download page > about the expected life duration .. and maybe a "timer" in anaconda > along the lines of "this version is more than 6 months old, there's > probably a newer version available, are you sure you want to continue" > would help. Dunno :-/ "timer" in anaconda...hmmmmm Allow me to riff on that, what about some sort of notification flag associated update notification fetching that starts counting from when the current release changes. For example, you turn on an existing fc6 system or installing an fc6 system a week after fc7 comes out. Anaconda or pup's notification applet reaches across the net and pulls Core update metadata looking for updates and gets some notification information which includes the fact that fc7 became avaliable a week ago. Now whatever tool you are using can present that information to the admin: "A new release of Fedora Core has been out for 7 days, here is some reference information about upgrading" or in anaconda perhaps something a bit harsher " WTF are you installing this old fedora release now that FC7 has been available for a whole week!" And then when FC6 goes into whatever you want to call legacy mode, the same flagging mechanism can be used to make another notification concerning the status change. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
