From cb87b7d0bd95b0a73825962c0f6b24670c245b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rallytime Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 11:08:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about best-effort support for non-lts ubuntu releases to README --- README.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 93e2f3b..9313f4e 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -255,6 +255,20 @@ Ubuntu and derivatives - Trisquel GNU/Linux 6 (based on Ubuntu 12.04) - Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04 +Ubuntu Best Effort Support: Non-LTS releases + +This script provides best-effort support for current, non-LTS +Ubuntu releases. If package repositories are not provided on +[repo.saltstack.com](http://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu) for +the non-LTS release, the bootstrap script will attempt to +install the packages for the most closely related LTS Ubuntu +release instead. + +For example, when installing Salt on Ubuntu 16.10, the bootstrap +script will setup the repository for Ubuntu 16.04 from +[repo.saltstack.com](http://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu) and +install the 16.04 packages. + Other Linux distro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~