On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:17 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 16:09, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> 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). > >> >> >> >>> >>> 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. >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > CentOS-devel mailing list >>> > > CentOS-devel at centos.org >>> > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > CentOS-devel mailing list >>> > CentOS-devel at centos.org >>> > >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.centos.org_mailman_listinfo_centos-2Ddevel&d=DwICAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=5ED84OG8C_XMrNuJm6AMpUCCsIvk937Q0Xq3F5Lndaw&s=oGAtHqGVJQVin41eveEYOSYLJ51CFLNoz78SfBukrbo&e= >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS-devel mailing list >>> CentOS-devel at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Matt Phelps* >> >> *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* >> >> (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) >> >> Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian >> >> >> 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 >> email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu >> >> >> cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter >> <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube >> <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter >> <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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