On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:44 AM, James Hogarth
<james.hogarth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 December 2016 at 17:41, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III
>> <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "PR" == Peter Robinson
<pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> PR> Reminder that RHEL 5 and hence EPEL 5 has got 3 months until EOL.
>>> PR> Packages now should really just be in bugfix and security fix only
>>> PR> mode.
>>>
>>> Should we be preventing the branching of new packages for EPEL5 at this
>>> point? We can probably get that switch thrown in phgdb. It would be
>>> analogous to the month of "updates but no new packages" in the
(current
>>> - 2) Fedora release.
>>>
>>> - J<
>>
>> It's probably a good idea to do that. I'd probably hazard to guess
>> that the flow of new packages going into EL5 target has already
>> slowed, and formally stopping the addition of new packages would
>> merely enforce the policy that Peter mentioned at the beginning of the
>> thread.
>>
>>
>>
>
> So this is pretty imminent now.
>
> Is the plan to drop EPEL5 packages entirely or to archive the last
> status of the repo like old fedora releases get archived?
They'll get archived as a snapshot of how it stands at EOL just like
previous EPEL releases:
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/
I totally forgot EPEL4 even existed back then ... thanks