On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:40:36AM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote: > Hello... > > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 21:21 -0800, Michael Stahnke wrote: > > So, we have about 60 days until EL4 goes to End of Life from Red > > Hat[1] (and thus triggering CentOS, and I imagine Oracle, Scientific > > et al). > > > > What are the plans for EPEL 4? > > > > The way I see we have a few options: > > > > 1. We stop putting new content in EPEL4 and take down the EPEL mirror > > (thus really end-of-lifeing EPEL 4) > > 2. We stop putting in new content, and leave the mirrors, thus > > allowing those who haven't migrated to ahve some sort of package > > options, with no option for updates > > 3. We keep allow people to add content to EPEL4 due to things like > > extended support > > 4. Some other option I haven't though about yet. > > > > > > > What happens to the git repo branches? If the branches stay then anyone > still using RHEL4 could use git checkout, fedpkg, and mock to build > their own packages with any security patches they need. > The git branches will remain. I don't believe we'd even close them out for commits (Extra work to script that ;-). koji would probably be closed to new builds (even scratch), though.
-Toshio
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