On 10/08/2015 09:55 AM, Shane wrote: > On 10/07/2015 07:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> If you need something from the last time things were updated you need to >>>> find them and download them manually >>>> fromhttp://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/18/x86_64/ >>>> and you'll need to resolve the dependencies yourself. >>> > >>> > Just because a repo is EOL doesn't mean that yum won't work. Repos >>> > continue to support installation of packages with dependency resolution. >>> > >> If they have been moved to "archive" and don't exist on mirrors they won't. >> And nobody is going to make them available as that is the purpose of EOL, to >> relieve people of having to maintain old, out of date, un-patched for >> security, software. > Well, when F18 repos stop working, or when I really need new software that > won't ever run on F18, and when I get a chance to quite likely break my > system with an upgrade or re-install, then that's when I'll update. For now, > it is running - and that's better than being broken.
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