Thanks, Nadav. Even though this didn't put me off 100%, your remark is valuable indeed.
Since my choice of distribution and unwillingness to upgrade becomes an issue all the time, I'll put it short: I prefer to stick to a certain distro and solve its problem over upgrading all the time exchanging one problem with another. Not to mention that I run external applications and homegrown scripts that may or may not survive an upgrade. Therefore it doesn't matter how soon the distro phases out, since I'm going to run it several years after that anyhow. The choice of Fedora was because it's popular and hence discussed widely in newsgroups, and I didn't want Ubuntu for reasons as rational as anyone's in those matters.
As a matter of fact, there's an advantage of running a phased-out distro: If I want to install a new application with yum, I'm not automatically forced to upgrade other packages because of new dependencies. That is an advantage for someone who considers an upgrade an opportunity to break something that worked. Which, as you know, happens every now and then.
Eli Nadav Har'El wrote:
Unless you're 100% sure that you really want to do this, I don't think you need to do this at all. If you look at http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-12&arch=i386 you'll see that dozens of mirrors still keep Fedora 12. If you look further back, Fedora 7 still has 5 mirrors, and Fedora Core 2 (more than 6 years old) still has 4 mirrors. For example, http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/ appear to be archiving all Fedora versions that ever existed, since 2003. Note, by the way, that you don't need to do anything special to your yum configuration to use these mirrors. The standard yum configuration used the aforementioned mirrorlist link to find all the available mirrors for your release.
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