[packman] Advance notice of PMBS shutdown from next Weekend on

[Stefan Seyfried]

Hi Stefan,

On 22.01.2018 09:04, Stefan Botter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> due to new compliance regulations in our data center I am not allowed
> to run systems there without available security updates.
> As openSUSE Leap 42.2's support period ends on Jan 26th 2018, and there
> is no published openSUSE Leap 42.3 repository for OBS' stable branch, I
> cannot update PMBS to openSUSE 42.3, and am thus unable to fulfill the
> compliance criteria.

The OBS:Server:2.8/openSUSE_42.2 packages seem to work just fine on openSUSE 42.3.

For testing, I just updated a fully patched 42.2 OBS appliance:

* cd /etc/zypp/repos.d
* sed -i -e 's/42.2/42.3/g' *42.2*repo (just update openSUSE repos, not OBS and not Tools)
* zypper -v ref
* zypper -v dup --no-r
  * select "keep obsolete python-yum..."

The resulting 42.3 based OBS seems to work just fine.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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