In article <CAGkb5vexU7eoU=-ASF_uPN_PA68QQi2RU0HdPhozZEYDE0VqEg at mail.gmail.com>, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:> > This is especially important if you use anything from EPEL as EPEL5 will be > removed when RHEL goes EOL.You mean just thrown away, or archived somewhere? Just thrown away would seem rather irresponsible... Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Tony Mountifield wrote:> You mean just thrown away, or archived somewhere? Just thrown away would > seem rather irresponsible...Mirroring EPEL makes sense well before this point, as they don't keep old versions of packages online either AFAIK. jh
On 3 March 2017 at 11:34, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Tony Mountifield wrote: > >> You mean just thrown away, or archived somewhere? Just thrown away would >> seem rather irresponsible... > > > Mirroring EPEL makes sense well before this point, as they don't keep old > versions of packages online either AFAIK. > > jh > >Indeed they aren't kept ... and since there hasn't been an EOL of EPEL before I honestly have no idea ... I've asked on the epel-devel mailing list as to whether it'll move to archive like old fedora releases do.