system autodeath
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 20 21:17:08 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 16:09 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:43:18AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > seth vidal wrote:
> > > A friend forwarded me this blog:
> > > http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/blog/linux/autodeath.1024px
> > >
> > > and I wondered if it would be something to consider for fedora releases.
> > >
> > > This would NOT be as a default, but as a package you can install, if you
> > > wish, to drop the route on your box after whatever expiration date. We
> > > can set the release date in a file in the package and key from there.
> > >
> > >
> > > If the package was included in a fedora repo we could have it have a
> > > death date of whenever the release started + 14months (some wiggle room
> > > for release slips) for example.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> >
> > I think it is much better to hookup preupgrade with PackageKit so you
> > get notification on your desktop
>
> Desktop machines typically aren't the problem in the 'setup once, and
> left abandoned running out of date code past EOL' scenario.
>
I agree here. I wasn't as worried about desktops as
servers/appliance-like machines.
I put it down on my list to look at putting a simple cron job together
in a package to do this.
If anyone wants to do this before I do, please feel free, otherwise,
I'll get to it when I can.
thanks,
-sv
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