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A small side note - SLC3 is still a reference platform for glite3, right? And not SL3. So I'm just curios as to when (if) to expect some official announcement from the glite people that now everything works on slc4 (really, migrating from one old distro to another is at least a questionable solution). atb, Ilja David Groep wrote: > 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. > > > > >