Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 14:11:01 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:39, John Summerfied wrote:

> Whether the policy is the same as always is not the point. The point is 
> that it's silly. It forces users to make untimely choices (such as go to 
> a beta release) or to make needless choices and do needless work (such 
> as reconfigure their updating software or install a soon-to-retire 
> release) or to make unsafe choices (such as to use unmaintained software).

The simple fix for this would be for either the final FC3 update
to install a yum repository change so subsequent updates
would continue to come in from the legacy repo or just let
the legacy team take over maintenance of the existing repository
location - or make the existing repo mirror the legacy one.

Failing to do this is going to leave a huge number of machines
vulnerable to future security problems even if they had been
set up to do automatic updates.  That's not a good thing for
a distribution's reputation.  Letting the Fedora team change
focus as planned makes sense.  Forcing all users to make a
manual configuration change in something that was supposed
to help them avoid manual work doesn't make sense.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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