<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">Op 4 okt. 2023 om 17:28 heeft Alex Pavlov via Pdns-users <pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com> het volgende geschreven:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So realistically</span> the <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Expanded Security Maintenance" is free for up to 5 machines (on one ubuntu account) ! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more you need to pay…. or open another account.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have seen even Ubuntu 12.x is still installed and working on some servers, some companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A lot of reasons why it happens, starting from “this old machine never touched for 10 years” to “the old administrator did it, and it still works”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please also keep in mind that one of the method of updating is rising versions on current server than migrate to newer kernel/server. You cut that way with deleting all files (not only the repo), just because your personal opinion tells you what is “realistic”… it is sad. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Also is bad that you don’t have the “archives” for old files </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">☹</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So you can delete from PDNS REPO server for disable automatic installation via “apt” for example, but you should leave the .deb packages for manual installation via dpkg ! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please, need help with files. Not the discussion of personal opinions.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>This is not a personal opinion. This is the policy of the project that you are choosing to use. <div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">BTW, just a week ago the files and Repo for Ubuntu 16.x and 18.x were on your server ! <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If I know you delete all on weekend up to Ubuntu 20.x , I should download all files immediately <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hope for understanding,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If somebody have the files, please share.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Alex.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Pdns-users <pdns-users-bounces@mailman.powerdns.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Smith via Pdns-users<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 04, 2023 5:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> All about using and deploying powerdns <pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp@protonmail.ch><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS repos request<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Well, it does clearly say .... "</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333;background:white">Once a distribution version reaches end of its support (5 years for Ubuntu LTS releases, ~3 years for Debian releases, etc.) we will stop providing packages for it"</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ubuntu 18.04 is not current anymore. LTS updates stopped earlier this year. The only people getting updates are those on "Expanded Security Maintenance" (i.e. paying Ubuntu on a contract, so realistically not many people).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I can totally understand <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sent with <a href="https://proton.me/" target="_blank">Proton Mail</a> secure email. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">------- Original Message -------<br>On Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 at 18:38, Alex Pavlov via Pdns-users <<a href="mailto:pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com">pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">Hello To all PDNS admins,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">Recently the older PDNS repos were deleted from official PDNS Repo website. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">The distros for Ubuntu 16.x (Xenial) and 18.x (Bionic) were wiped out without any link to “archives” or “old releases”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">I can understand that releses like Ubuntu 16.x and older might be really outdated…. But for 18.x Ubuntu it is still so many people using it in production !</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">The options for compiling the required build or upgrade to newer Ubuntu kernel not always working in real world, where we have other packages/software running </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">on same server or required libraries sometimes in conflict with other versions. – this is explanation to those who have “smart advices” install everyrthing on newer/supported server version.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">Asking for help all PDNS society to share the deleted Ubuntu 18.x Bionic packages with me </span><span lang="LV" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span lang="LV"> (need all versions of pdns, pdns-backend, pdns-recursor, dnsdist, pdns-tools)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">If somebody have it in files saved, share it please in any reasonable way like: FTP, MEGA downloads, or any other file sharing service.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">Alex.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV">Contact to: <a href="mailto:admin@livas.lv" target="_blank">admin@livas.lv</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="LV"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Pdns-users mailing list</span><br><span>Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</span><br><span>https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>