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

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:17 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 16:09, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
> You will get every system running through messages like this
>
>
> [root at linode01 ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
> Setting up Update Process
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> epel/metalink
>                                    | 2.5 kB     00:00
> epel-testing/metalink
>                                    | 2.6 kB     00:00
>  * base: mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net
>  * epel: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net
>  * epel-testing: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net
>  * extras: mirror.netdepot.com
>  * updates: mirrors.usinternet.com
> http://mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net/centos/6.10/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not
> Found"
> Trying other mirror.
> To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article
>
> https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors
>
> If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please use
> https://bugs.centos.org/.
> http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/6.10/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not
> Found"
> Trying other mirror.
>
> until it finds some mirror which will work (that one mirror seems to be
> updating for everyone in the world so is very slow).
>
> or it will do the following:
>
> [root at linode01 ~]# yum clean all
> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
> Cleaning repos: base cr epel epel-testing extras updates
> Cleaning up Everything
> Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
> [root at linode01 ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
> Setting up Update Process
> Determining fastest mirrors
> YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
>  Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/
> removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
> /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
> [root at linode01 ~]# echo $?
> 1
> [root at linode01 ~]# yum list all
> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
>  Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/
> removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
> /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>
> so basically the system can not find anything/do anything until a working
> mirror is there.
>
>

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).




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>>>
>>> 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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>> *Matt Phelps*
>>
>> *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator*
>>
>> (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
>>
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