[CentOS-devel] EPEL-6 is End of Life in 2020-11

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 15:13, BC <centoslistmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Johnny Hughes <johnny at 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.


> 2) 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.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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