On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 5:26 PM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
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).
- 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.
All excellent suggestions thanks.
We've never run into this situation before, because there wasn't a FREAKING GLOBAL PANDEMIC for nine months before the EOL date. We had started upgrading our 150+ machines before March 2020, but then, well... you know.
It turns out we do something similar to number 2, so we'll probably be OK.
Maybe the CentOS folks could just drag their feet for a few weeks to give other folks a little break.
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/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0I then edited the CentOS-Base.repo to
[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$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&repo=updates&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$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&repo=extras&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 enabled=0I am now starting a slow copy of the vault for my later use.
-- Stephen J Smoogen.
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