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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 31.05.2016 um 18:24 schrieb 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.
>
> RHEL 5 / Centos 5 - end of  deployment was Q1 2014 , Maintenance Abril
> 2017,   	

did i miss something or do we write 2017 that this justifies packages in 
a repo with no working dependencies - if that is ever acceptable at all

>> # 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

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