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

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:31:38AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I know they are EOL.  I'm asking that consideration be made for 
the MirrorManager/mirrorlist configuration to be left intact so as not 
to break NetBlock redirection and perhaps any other public mirrors 
that have the space and wish to still be listed/redirected to for yum 
updates.

Thanks.

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