On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 16:39 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:34, John Summerfied wrote: > > > The current policy of retiring an FC release immediately _before_ the > > release of the second subsequent release seems completely bizarre to me. > > It is really in no one's best interest to have developers wasting > their time backporting fixes and updates into an old distribution. > If you want updates, everyone is better off if you move on to the > next version, and a policy that encourages this makes a lot of > sense. In theory, FC4 should be very well tested and reliable by > now and FC5 should be usable if you don't mind a surprise or two. > It is also next to no trouble to update your yum configuration > to pull from the legacy repository (much less than complaining > about it...). My only concern in this issue is for the large > number of machines whose administrators don't watch the mail list > and won't be aware of the need to change. When the next security > problem and fix come around they won't get the fix even if they > continue to run their updates. > A yum update to yum would solve that. Change the .repo files to point to the legacy project and then any new updates would be available totally transparent to the user. And, leave that update on the fedora site so anyone, at any time, who tries to update from fedora would get the change. This won't, of course, take care of those who fail to keep up to date systems. (But then they weren't keeping the updates installed anyway.) It will however, give them the new location the first time they do an actual update attempt. > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > >
