Kyriakos Ginis wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:59:13PM +0100, Andreas Haupt wrote:
>> that's not true. Plain SL3 is entering the "legacy mode" on 1st of
>> December. After that only the version 3.0.9 is provided with security
>> updates. But there *is* a maintained SL until October 2010:
>>
>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/
>
> And here is the announcement from the developers:
>
> http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0710&L=scientific-linux-announce&T=0&P=458
>
>
Good to hear that the support will remain for SL as well. But the
announcement (also on the web site) could be interpreted in a
different way -- which is just what I accidentally did:
> Two things will happen in the transition phase.
>
> * December 1, 2007
> A new yum-conf for S.L. 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307, and 308. This new
> yum-conf will change both your cron.yum and your /etc/yum.conf. It will not
> change your release to become SL 309, but it will change the security update
> (errata) section to point to SL 309's security update area. This will allow
> you to continue to get security updates as you transition to SL 3.0.9.
> * mid February 2008
> S.L. 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307, and 308 will be moved into
> scientific/obsolete. From experience, we know that users and admins will
> continue to use SL 3 until we remove them. We also know, that for one reason
> or another, a user will need one file or another from an old release. Our
> solution for both problems is to move the old releases into a directory
> called obsolete. We currently do not know how long we will keep the releases
> in there before removing them.
So after Mid-February 2008, anything can happen. In particular, SL 3.0.9 can
continue to have updates built for it, that are just not published in the
repository ;-)
"We currently do not know how long we will keep the releases in there
before removing them"
So the info at https://www.scientificlinux.org/news/sl3.legacy is confusing
at least ...
Cheers,
DavidG.
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