On 2 Mar 2017 03:49, "John R Pierce" <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: On 3/1/2017 7:28 PM, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > Can you say exactly when in early April the tree will be moved? I have a > number of installations that need to continue running CentOS 5 so I'd like > to do a final update before the tree moves. > may I suggest building your own mirror well before then, update it with rsync or lftp weekly (or even daily), from http://mirrors.xmission.com/ce ntos/5 (pick your favorite mirror to make the mirror from), and replace your CentOS-xxx.repo files with ones that point to your private repo I use a command like this to mirror everything and incrementally update, you could change the last centos to centos/5 if you want to just fetch and update that... lftp -c 'open ftp://mirrors.sonic.net && lcd /mirrors && mirror --continue --verbose=1 -x SRPMS centos' (yes, you do need to find a ftp mirror, i had issues mirroring from an http server). This is especially important if you use anything from EPEL as EPEL5 will be removed when RHEL goes EOL.