missing repo, no repomd, no metalink.xml

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 21:55 -0400, Shane wrote:
> On 10/07/2015 07:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > > If you need something from the last time things were updated
> > > > you need to find them and download them manually fromhttp://arc
> > > > hives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/18/x86
> > > > _64/   and you'll need to resolve the dependencies yourself.
> > > > 
> > > >   Just because a repo is EOL doesn't mean that yum won't work.
> > > > Repos continue to support installation of packages with
> > > > dependency resolution.
> > > > 
> > If they have been moved to "archive" and don't exist on mirrors
> > they won't.  And nobody is going to make them available as that is
> > the purpose of EOL, to relieve people of having to maintain old,
> > out of date, un-patched for security, software.
>     Well, when F18 repos stop working, or when I really need new 
> software that won't ever run on F18, and when I get a chance to quite
> likely break my system with an upgrade or re-install, then that's
> when 
> I'll update.  For now, it is running - and that's better than being
> broken.

Actually, several critical security fixes were released after F18 was
EOLed. This is just a random selection:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-April/003206.ht
ml
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/cve-2015-0235-patch-ghost-on-debian-ubuntu
-fedora-centos-rhel-linux/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-6271

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