[CentOS-devel] Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL on 30 November 2020

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:43 PM Patrick Riehecky <riehecky at 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 at 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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