Yum repros wanted

Adam Gibson agibson at ptm.com
Mon Jun 27 13:34:08 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:03 -0400, Adam Gibson wrote:
> 
>>Paul Howarth wrote:
>>...
>>
>>>Many of the packages in Extras started life as SRPMs from other repos 
>>>such as Dag's and Axel's. It would be great if Dag & Axel would submit 
>>>their own packages for inclusion in Extras too.
>>
>>...
>>
>>I hope dag does not push his stuff into Extras.  According to what I 
>>have read on the Fedora Legacy list, Extras will not be updated by 
>>fedora-legacy when Fedora EOL's it so once that happens Extras will 
>>become stagnant and not even get security fixes.
> 
> 
> There's nothing stopping any package maintainer supporting EOLed
> distributions in Extras; however, it's anticipated that not all
> maintainers will be sufficiently motivated to do so, and it's not
> *required* that they do.

I know this has gone off topic a bit but thanks for the clarification. 
I didn't realize that Extras would still accept updates to packages 
after Fedora EOLs a distribution.




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