gaberubin at gmail
Nov 16, 2009, 11:30 AM
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm [at] atrpms> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:55:45AM -0800, David Rees wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>> > I see that Fedora 12 is about to be released. I am still using Fedora
>> > 10. Anytime I upgrade Fedora, I have to burn a DVD, take my mythbox
>> > offline, and update the box and deal with any little quirks that
>> > updating does. It is pretty much a half day project, so I tend to
>> > only do it when I would run into unsupported distro issues. I know I
>> > can (and probably should) switch to something more sensible like
>> > CentOS, but I am afraid that has its own complications.
>> >
>> > Understanding that it is not an if, but a when for my upgrade to
>> > Fedora 12, I am curious how much longer ATrpms will support Fedora 10.
>>
>> In the past, it's been a bit longer than Fedora's official support
>> period, which runs about a month after the n+2 release.
>
> Yes, that was the scheme until now - it doesn't make sense to support
> a Fedora release if the mothership cannot support it anymore, e.g. if
> there can't be upgrades to kernel and glibc, even security related
> ones, it doesn't make sense to upgrade mythtv.
Totally understand the decision, and I realized my email may have
sounded somewhat entitled. I do appreciate the work you put into
making my system as stable as can be. Obviously I don't like the
constant upgrades, but it is much more worthwhile to have a modern,
stable, secure system.
>
> E.g. F12 will be out on the 17th of November and F10 will stop
> receiving updates and any other support about mid December. See also
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle
>
> Wrt to upgrading: I already upgrade a couple of systems to F12. Fedora
> 12 has been "released" in non-DVD form, e.g. /Everything/ and
> /updates/ is already working, you can have F12 on you system with a
> yum upgrade today! (And it works rather smoothly this time)
>
> Just try
>
> rpm -Uhv http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-12-1.noarch.rpm
>
> and then yum upgrade to Fedora 12.
If it is truly this easy, then I won't even have the upgrades to
complain about. This will probably be a thanksgiving weekend project.
Thanks,
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