[CentOS] Status of RPMFusion repo for CentOS 5 and 6 ?

[Sérgio Basto]

On Ter, 2016-05-31 at 17:42 +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 31/05/2016 à 16:47, Andreas Benzler a écrit :
> > 
> > Well specifically for centos-5 .. I am not sure.  But CentOS-5 is
> > less
> > > 
> > > than a year from EOL anyway, so if you are supporting those in a
> > > desktop, you should be considering how to move them to at least
> > > CentOS-6
> > > now (if not CentOS-7).
> Well, I just gave RPMFusion a spin on EL5, and I'd say it's more or
> less
> unusable.

http://sourcefreedom.com/eol-operating-systems-etc/eol-red-hat/
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product

RHEL 5 / Centos 5 - end of  deployment was Q1 2014 , Maintenance Abril
2017,   	

> # yum install mplayer
> ...
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcaca.so.0 is needed by package
> mplayer-1.0-0.101.20080903svn.el5.1.i386 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> 
> # yum install ffmpeg
> ...
> Error: Missing Dependency: libImlib2.so.1 is needed by package
> ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5.i386 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> 
> I have some CentOS 5.x clients on some very old hardware, and I'd
> like
> to keep them running 5.x until it's EOL next year.
> 
> Guess I'll just roll my own package repo in the meantime.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niki
> 
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Sérgio M. B.