On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:04 +0100, Louis Poncet wrote:
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> Hi,
> yes Kostas CERN has a maintenance support with a company (if i
> remember well) which is doing security update for legacy release of
> linux distributions.
>
I don't think security update made by external company for legacy
release can be used by other sites because of license.
Di
> But the porting to SLC4 should be discuss with the integration team.
> Lp
>
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> Le 14 févr. 06 à 10:59, Kostas Georgiou a écrit :
>
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:23:45AM +0000, Henry Nebrensky wrote:
> >
> >> We'd like some guidance too...
> >>
> >> We have a set of nice shiny new boxes due soon, which we were
> >> expecting to
> >> run SLC3 on.
> >>
> >> However my reading of
> >> http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/documentation/LXCERT/20060207/
> >> minutes.shtml
> >> is that support for SLC 3 on x86_64 (i.e., said shiny new boxes) will
> >> cease at end 200_6_ (unlike SL 3 which will support it to end Oct
> >> '07 by
> >> my reading of the roadmap).
> >
> > RedHat will stop supporting new hardware in a couple of months!!
> > and after
> > October we'll only see security updates and select mission critical
> > bug fixes.
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
> > General Availability: Oct 23, 2003
> > Full Support (including hardware updates): Oct 23, 2003 -- April
> > 30, 2006
> > Deployment Support: May 1, 2006 -- Oct 31, 2006
> > Maintenance Support: Nov 1, 2006 -- Oct 31, 2010
> >
> > CERN might say that they'll support SLC3 until the end of 2007 but
> > what does
> > that mean exactly? Are they going to start backporting fixes after
> > 1 Nov 2006
> > (and considering that they need to keep binary compatibility it is
> > not easy)
> > or by support they mean that they'll recompile whatever RedHat
> > offers under
> > Maintenance Support?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kostas
>
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