Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[jdow]

From: "James Kosin" <jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com>

> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> Maybe, posting an update to Yum that changes the configuration to
> automatically point to the fedora-legacy servers would be a better idea.
> 
> When they get the error messages about not being able to connect to the
> server they will definitely complain about the problem and then they
> could also be informed of the change and make the appropriate changes
> themselves.
> 
> Just my 2-cents,
> James Kosin

That does sound like a quite workable solution, particularly if it's
for people in John's situation. (I plan to watch the pain people go
through updating from 4 to 5 for a couple months. Then if it seems
feasible make the update. So it "might not" affect me.)

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