On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:18:09 +0000Well, I am a bit leary of doing that. There may be people using the 1.9
Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > When ansible 2.0 was released there were some changes in playbook
> > handling made. For this reason, we created a backwards compatible
> > package with ansible 1.9 to ease the transition for those that
> > needed more time to adjust their playbooks.
> >
> > Late last year it looked like there would be a final release in the
> > 1.9 series addressing some security issues. However, the most
> > recent round of security issues found in 2.x are difficult to
> > impossible to backport to 1.9 so there will not be a final 1.9
> > release.
> >
> > Since it has now been 1 year since ansible 2.0 was released, and
> > since ansible 1.9 has known security vulnerabilities, backporting
> > fixes is impossible, we will be retiring the ansible1.9 package
> > from EPEL.
> >
> > All ansible 1.9 users are urged to update to 2.x as soon as
> > possible.
>
> Will the mainline 2 package obsolete the old package to ensure it
> doesn''t hangĀ around?
packages that are aware of the security issues and still wish to keep
using it longer for whatever reasons.