[mirror-admin] Fedora 7/8+updates going away

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:55:35AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > We're moving Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 to our archives.fedoraproject.org
> > server.  You can still sync the content there.  Unfortunately our plan to
> > have the master mirrors upgraded by now hasn't happened yet so we're just
> > running out of space.
> >
> > I'll be removing the 7/8 content from the master mirrors sometime tomorrow
> > replacing it with a README like we have the others.
>
> How will this affect the Fedora 7/8 clients?  If their yum repos are
> pointing directly to download.f.r.c, then it will break after the
> move.  But if they are using mirrorlist, which is the default config I
> believe, will MirrorManager redirect their requests to working
> servers?  That would be ideal.
>

Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 are EOL and not officially supported, I suspect
whatever we do will be best effort.

	-Mike

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