On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Axel Thimm <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:55:45AM -0800, David Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Gabe Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I see that Fedora 12 is about to be released. I am still using Fedora >> > 10. Anytime I upgrade Fedora, I have to burn a DVD, take my mythbox >> > offline, and update the box and deal with any little quirks that >> > updating does. It is pretty much a half day project, so I tend to >> > only do it when I would run into unsupported distro issues. I know I >> > can (and probably should) switch to something more sensible like >> > CentOS, but I am afraid that has its own complications. >> > >> > Understanding that it is not an if, but a when for my upgrade to >> > Fedora 12, I am curious how much longer ATrpms will support Fedora 10. >> >> In the past, it's been a bit longer than Fedora's official support >> period, which runs about a month after the n+2 release. > > Yes, that was the scheme until now - it doesn't make sense to support > a Fedora release if the mothership cannot support it anymore, e.g. if > there can't be upgrades to kernel and glibc, even security related > ones, it doesn't make sense to upgrade mythtv.
Totally understand the decision, and I realized my email may have sounded somewhat entitled. I do appreciate the work you put into making my system as stable as can be. Obviously I don't like the constant upgrades, but it is much more worthwhile to have a modern, stable, secure system. > > E.g. F12 will be out on the 17th of November and F10 will stop > receiving updates and any other support about mid December. See also > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle > > Wrt to upgrading: I already upgrade a couple of systems to F12. Fedora > 12 has been "released" in non-DVD form, e.g. /Everything/ and > /updates/ is already working, you can have F12 on you system with a > yum upgrade today! (And it works rather smoothly this time) > > Just try > > rpm -Uhv > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-12-1.noarch.rpm > > and then yum upgrade to Fedora 12. If it is truly this easy, then I won't even have the upgrades to complain about. This will probably be a thanksgiving weekend project. Thanks, _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
