[syslog-ng] cleaning up the unofficial rpm repositories

[Alicia Smith]

We are currently on 3.12.
We are planning to upgrade to the latest version very soon, my colleague is
out today so I can't get an update on timeframe, but wanted to bring this
to your attention.

Thank you for the heads up!

Alicia Smith

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:14 AM Peter Czanik (pczanik) <
Peter.Czanik at oneidentity.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ever since I started my unofficial rpm packages for (open)SUSE and
> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS I created a new repository for each new release and
> never deleted them. Of course OBS and Copr guys did sometimes clean ups, so
> Fedora and openSUSE packages for long end of life distributions got
> deleted. But for the rest there are still syslog-ng 3.5 packages on-line.
>
> Not everyone likes to update syslog-ng every second month, so I keep the
> current workflow and create a new repo for each new release. This way your
> syslog-ng.conf or package management is not accidentally broken at a random
> time with a new update, you have a chance to test a new release thoroughly
> before upgrading. On the other hand I plan to keep only a year worth of
> releases instead of everything.
>
> Question:
>
>
>    - Is there anyone, who needs packages older than one year? With the
>    one year limit I'd delete anything older than 3.17 and delete 3.17 as well,
>    once 3.24 is out, and so on.
>
> Bye,
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at oneidentity.com>
> Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
> https://syslog-ng.com/community/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
>
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Alicia Smith
@phrozyn
Sr. Information Security Engineer
asmith at mozilla.com
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