RFE: Retire Fedora Core 4 only _after_ FC6 has been released.

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Jan 19 04:34:46 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:53 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:25:34PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > A. Notify the user that FC3 support has been handed over to Fedora
> > Legacy the next time he/she runs yum(ex)/pirut/etc.
> 
> yum doesn't have the functionality for that at the moment. Not a bad idea so
> perhaps one to submit patches for ?
> 
> > B. Give the user an automated tools to switch over his yum configuration
> > to Fedora Legacy. (Including required PGP keys, yum.repo.d files, etc)
> 
> This is a good idea, such a package should probably start in extras as a test
> the water exercise.
Much more simpler:

Ship of a fedora-release rpm for FC(N) through updates at the time FL(N)
is being launched, which replaces /etc/yum.repo.d/fedora.repo with a
fedora.repo which points to fedoralegacy sites/mirrors.

Ralf





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