On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:43 PM Patrick Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov> wrote:
Some folks may continue running EL6 based systems, but we need to make
sure it is obvious that we're not providing any security updates.
Moving the repos off the mirror network will provide a hint to folks
doing a simple 'yum update' that something is not the way it once was.


Pat

Whoa! 

What will happen if I run a "yum update" on a CO6 machine? We have it run automatically at reboot and I need to know what will happen so I can see if the rest of the scripts we run at startup will be OK.

Yes we are updating them, but it's hard to do when you can't go onsite due to COVID.



 

On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 21:40 +0100, Marcin Dulak wrote:
> Is this really a good idea to remove those things?EOL does not mean
> CentOS6 will disappear from various legacy setups,
> they may be kept running for a long time.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 6:43 PM Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org>
> wrote:
> > On 02/12/2020 17:04, Laurențiu Păncescu wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/2/20 10:45 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > > > Just to let you all know that starting from today,
> > mirrorlist.centos.org
> > > > nodes answer "Invalid release/repo/arch combination" and also
> > that
> > > > content was removed from mirrors.
> > > > Johnny pushed the last updates yesterday, that went out to
> > external
> > > > mirrors .
> > >
> > > Shouldn't we also delete centos/6 from Vagrant Cloud, and
> > possibly
> > > official images hosted by e.g. Amazon Marketplace, Docker
> > Registry, etc.?
> >
> > I've removed the vagrant image, and sent a requst for the AMP
> > listing to
> > be removed.
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