Fedora.us Status, Warning to FC3 APT Users!

[Warren Togami]

Fedora.us is Extras for the old RH8-FC2 distributions.  If you are using 
newer Fedora distributions then ignore this message.

Warning to Fedora.us FC3 APT Users
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download.fedora.us has been replicating FC3 Updates and FE3 for apt 
users.  This has become a significant burden to fedora.us as it has 
become 99% of sync traffic in past months.  This is redundant and a 
waste of storage and bandwidth resources.

For this reason I have decided that download.fedora.us mirrors will 
completely remove FC3 and FE3 from the apt-only fedora.us mirror network 
on September 10th.

The Fedora Project recommends that users migrate away from apt to newer 
tools like yum or smartpm.  Even upstream Conectiva has given up on apt, 
instead worked on their new client smartpm rewritten from scratch. 
Apt-rpm has bugs (virtual provides bugs like #164601) and missing 
functionality (like multilib) that may never be fixed, making it 
impossible to support for the Fedora Project.

Yum and smartpm have the direct benefit of being able to use the 
repodata on official Fedora Project mirrors.  Extras has "yumex" and 
"kyum" graphical user interfaces available, while smartpm has its own 
GUI interface.  (Hmm... any volunteers to put smartpm into Extras?)

http://apt.freshrpms.net/
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/
For users who insist upon continuing to use apt for FC3, we advise 
switching to the FreshRPMS repository which has Core & Extras among 
other repositories.

Fedora.us Discontinuing RH8 Extras
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Effective immediately fedora.us will no longer make security updates for 
RH8 Extras.  Fedora Legacy has stopped maintenance of RH8 due to lack of 
interest long ago, so it makes no sense for Extras to continue security 
updates for RH8 either.

Fedora.us Status
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http://www.fedora.us
Fedora.us remains in development only for security updates of old Extras 
for RH9-FC2.  Read the above URL for reporting details if you see a 
security issue that needs fixing.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com