details about EOL (of FreeBSD 5.4) ?

[Greg Barniskis]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote:

>> If 2006 is accurate, this is registering on me as a significant POLA 
>> violation. Very hard to believe this is accurate. If accurate, what 
>> list/channel/forum should I have been paying more attention to?
> 
> security@, and the website where this has been announced for a LONG
> TIME.  The policy and rationale is all there.

OK, thanks. Searched back in my security@ archives and found it, 
plain as day. The discussion of 5.4's fate did happen long ago.

I actually read it carefully at the time but didn't think much of 
it, believing we'd surely have our servers on 6.x by now. So I 
totally take back the POLA statement -- I knew this was coming and 
it was my mistake to forget and let mgmt. defer the upgrade plan.

We'll do an interim hop from RELENG_5_4 to RELENG_5, and escalate 
our path to 6.x adoption. Actually, it'll be nice to wave the EOL 
stick to force some action on that. Running EOL server parts is 
against policy. =)


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