[kernel-xen] Removing Xen 4.2 from repos

[Christiaan den Besten]

Perhaps move them to an archive folder. 

It might be that some people install older version on expanding an existing hypervisor cluster which is internal enough to not worry about the vulnerabilities.

bye,
Chris

> On 27 Nov 2016, at 03:38, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm thinking of removing the Xen 4.2 packages from the repositories.
> From my logs, it seems they are still installed fairly often - but have
> been EOL and unsupported for at least 16 months.
> 
> That being the case, there's an almost certain chance that there are
> known security exploits in the wild against these packages - and I think
> that the inconvenience of someone having to look up where they went and
> why they're not available anymore is probably better than still making
> known bad packages available.
> 
> The documentation on my install guide[1] has only mentioned Xen 4.4, 4.5
> or 4.6 for a long time.
> 
> Anyone on the list got any thoughts about this one way or another?
> 
> -- 
> Steven Haigh
> 
> Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
> Web: https://www.crc.id.au
> Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
> 
> 1: https://xen.crc.id.au/support/guides/install/
> 
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