On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 16:37, Phelps, Matthew mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:17 PM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 16:09, Phelps, Matthew mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:43 PM Patrick Riehecky riehecky@fnal.gov wrote:
I'm not really very happy with this throwing an error.
I get it. People need to upgrade. But breaking things that are part of automated processes is a crappy way to get the message across.
As I mentioned, upgrades will take some time still, and now I have more work to deal with our unupgraded systems, so now it will take even longer to upgrade.
Thanks a bunch.
(Sorry for the sarcasm, but this is not a nice way to deal with the situation).
1. I am not happy with this myself. I wasn't happy when it happened in EL5 or EL4 or others. However, it is the way things have been done with EOL releases in CentOS for a very long time and was explained that this would be the way it would happen for a year. 2. Fix 1: Mirror the content from an archive of the site closer to your network. It is only a couple hundred gigabytes. Then either use /etc/hosts or change configs so it is used as the place to get content. 3. Fix 2: Use an upstream mirror like https://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ but expect it to be overloaded at times. 4. Fix 3: Just add enabled=0 to CentOS-Base.repo systems. They aren't going to get updates anymore anyway.
On my CentOS6 systems I have a /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo which I added the following to: ``` #-----------------
[C6.10-base] name=CentOS-6.10 - Base baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=1
[C6.10-updates] name=CentOS-6.10 - Updates baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=1
[C6.10-extras] name=CentOS-6.10 - Extras baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=1
[C6.10-contrib] name=CentOS-6.10 - Contrib baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0
[C6.10-centosplus] name=CentOS-6.10 - CentOSPlus baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0 ```
I then edited the CentOS-Base.repo to ``` [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0
#released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0
#additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0 ```
I am now starting a slow copy of the vault for my later use.