EPEL 6 is End Of Life (EOL) on November 2020. EPEL 6 will be moved to archives in December 2020.
Plan ahead now.
On 9/4/20 5:12 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
EPEL 6 is End Of Life (EOL) on November 2020. EPEL 6 will be moved to archives in December 2020.
Plan ahead now.
Same holds true for CentOS Linux 6 in general.
CentOS Linux 6 will EOL at theend of November 2020 and will be moved into vault.centos.org only at that time .. juat like the older versions of CentOS Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5 .. already are.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 9/4/20 5:12 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
EPEL 6 is End Of Life (EOL) on November 2020. EPEL 6 will be moved to archives in December 2020.
Plan ahead now.
Same holds true for CentOS Linux 6 in general.
A couple of questions regarding this process.
1) Will mirrorlist be updated to point to the vault (centos) or archive (EPEL)? I notice that epel-5 seems to work in mirrorlist, but not the centos repos. 2) Will centos-release or epel-release be updated before landing in the vault / archive?
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 15:13, BC centoslistmail@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 9/4/20 5:12 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
EPEL 6 is End Of Life (EOL) on November 2020. EPEL 6 will be moved to archives in December 2020.
Plan ahead now.
Same holds true for CentOS Linux 6 in general.
A couple of questions regarding this process.
- Will mirrorlist be updated to point to the vault (centos) or
archive (EPEL)? I notice that epel-5 seems to work in mirrorlist, but not the centos repos.
No idea if CentOS does that. I think when they end of life things, they END OF LIFE THINGS.
- Will centos-release or epel-release be updated before landing in
the vault / archive?
epel-release will probably not be. The mirrormanager will be updated to point people to archives.
On 10/5/20 2:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 15:13, BC <centoslistmail@gmail.com mailto:centoslistmail@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org <mailto:johnny@centos.org>> wrote: > > On 9/4/20 5:12 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: > > EPEL 6 is End Of Life (EOL) on November 2020. > > EPEL 6 will be moved to archives in December 2020. > > > > Plan ahead now. > > > > Same holds true for CentOS Linux 6 in general. A couple of questions regarding this process. 1) Will mirrorlist be updated to point to the vault (centos) or archive (EPEL)? I notice that epel-5 seems to work in mirrorlist, but not the centos repos.No idea if CentOS does that. I think when they end of life things, they END OF LIFE THINGS.
Nope (for CentOS) .. EOL items no longer get any updates .. they are therefore insecure. We will not be creating any links that automatically point to any repos that are End Of Life and Insecure.
You can use anything you want (insecure or not) from vault.centos.org on your own. We obviously recommend that you do not do that.
Red Hat does sell EUS versions of RHEL6. If you have mission critical loads that must use the EL6 codebase .. after EOL, that is what the Extended Life RHEL 6 is all about. There will be none of that for CentOS Linux (just like all other version EOL versions of CentOS Linux)
I mean, if you wanted, you could download CentOS-2.1 from the year 2003 and try to get it to install and use it. It would not be the smartest thing from a security standpoint.
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