On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:44 AM, James Hogarth james.hogarth@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 December 2016 at 17:41, Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu wrote:
>> "PR" == Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com writes:
PR> Reminder that RHEL 5 and hence EPEL 5 has got 3 months until EOL. PR> Packages now should really just be in bugfix and security fix only PR> mode.
Should we be preventing the branching of new packages for EPEL5 at this point? We can probably get that switch thrown in phgdb. It would be analogous to the month of "updates but no new packages" in the (current
- Fedora release.
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It's probably a good idea to do that. I'd probably hazard to guess that the flow of new packages going into EL5 target has already slowed, and formally stopping the addition of new packages would merely enforce the policy that Peter mentioned at the beginning of the thread.
So this is pretty imminent now.
Is the plan to drop EPEL5 packages entirely or to archive the last status of the repo like old fedora releases get archived?
They'll get archived as a snapshot of how it stands at EOL just like previous EPEL releases: http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/