Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > A friend forwarded me this blog: > > http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/blog/linux/autodeath.1024px > > and I wondered if it would be something to consider for fedora > > releases. > > This would NOT be as a default, but as a package you can install, if > > you > > wish, to drop the route on your box after whatever expiration date. We > > can set the release date in a file in the package and key from there. > > If the package was included in a fedora repo we could have it have a > > death date of whenever the release started + 14months (some wiggle room > > for release slips) for example. > > Any thoughts? > I think it is much better to hookup preupgrade with PackageKit so you > get notification on your desktop when there is a new release and a > easy path to do so. Notifying and encouraging users to upgrade would > solve the problem of people sticking to old unmaintained releases in a > much nicer way. Also, some people I know stick to old versions for (closed source or inhouse developed) software that is hard/impossible to port forward, or just random inconsistencies between versions (automount troubles between CentOS 5, CentOS 4, Fedora 8 and 9 here were a recent example; we are working on open source related to the ALMA radioastronomy observatory, there they are still running ancient Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions due to software written in "C++" as understood by old GCC, newer GCCs just barf at the code and rewriting/retesting that huge mess is a titanic job just now really underway). On philosophical grounds, I'm against forcing people forward, even for their own good... /encouraging/ them forward is a much better idea. [Most tyrannies tried to force people "for their own good", some did it perhaps even in (mistaken?) good faith, a few were even right in this...] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
