I'm not sure if there was an announcement about this before, but do those of us using 6.2 and below no longer receive updated packages for items that are found faulty? -- aron
Hi, On Wednesday 05 September 2001 19:26, adm wrote:
I'm not sure if there was an announcement about this before, but do those of us using 6.2 and below no longer receive updated packages for items that are found faulty?
To quote from an earlier announcement: "Effective Monday, March 19 2001, five weeks after the release of the new SuSE-7.1 distribution, SuSE will discontinue support for the SuSE-linux distributions SuSE-6.0 SuSE-6.1 and SuSE-6.2." There have been a few exceptions to this rule. Another quote regarding the ftp server: "The discontinued distributions (SuSE Linux before (and including) 6.2) have moved to an own tree: /pub/suse/discontinued/<arch>." Regards, Martin -- Martin Leweling Institut fuer Planetologie, WWU Muenster Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Muenster, Germany
Hi! I'm using Suse 6.2 on my server too. Up to now, I've no problems on using the 6.3 or 6.4 binary-rpms. Cheers, Boris. -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: adm [mailto:adm@odelay.ramshackle.net] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. September 2001 19:27 An: suse-security@suse.com Betreff: [suse-security] security updates I'm not sure if there was an announcement about this before, but do those of us using 6.2 and below no longer receive updated packages for items that are found faulty? -- aron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com
Hi!
I'm using Suse 6.2 on my server too. Up to now, I've no problems on using the 6.3 or 6.4 binary-rpms.
6.3 should work, _basically_. Since the packages are not built for 6.2,
the probability that they fail is bigger than anywhere else. But if it
works, it's fine.
Then, the mentioned exceptions: We have promised in earlier announcements
that we will fix some of the pending bugs for 6.2, even after the time for
discontinuation has come. That's what we did: We just didn't fix bugs that
become known after the freeze (well, some were really easy to fix, so we
kept them).
Since download stats from ftp.suse.com indicated that people retrieve
(update) packages from 6.2 and older and newer bugs occurred in some
packages and were fixed for the newer distributions only, I have moved the
packages to a new directory that has a quite "indicative" name. In
addition to that, it's easier for mirror admins to keep up-to-date with
the structure on ftp.suse.com.
Thanks,
Roman.
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