On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:33:17AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > >The aim here is not to present the _appearance_ of a distro with > >security updates but give the choice to the user either to upgrade or to > >stick with a distro where some packages will not be maintained. > >Something along "That distro is EOL. Upgrade before you get hacked. > >Alternatively, and at your own risk, you can enable a repository where > >some packages are updated on a volunteer basis, but some packages aren't > >maintained anymore." > > > >With a page listing which packages are still supported. > > The issue you will have is that people will not be comfortable opening the > ACLs for things like the kernel or glibc or gcc. And if those ACLs are still > closed and the maintainers have no interest in participating in this "life > after EOL" scheme, then it's very hard to have any appearance of security. You mean, even for branches they don't maintain anymore? That would be strange. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
