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.
Rahul