CentOS - Sep 2009 - Using yum with CentOS-2 mirrors

Hi all,

I was having yum errors while updating our CentOS-2 box. Further
reading lead me to a readme file on the mirrors
(http://mirror.centos.org/centos-2/readme.txt) and it gave me the new
URL to use for CentOS-2 mirrors. I have edited /etc/yum.conf with the
new URLs but I'm still having issues with yum giving me "ValueError:
unpack list of wrong size" errors.

Has anyone been able to update their yum configuration to be still
able to use yum? How were you able to configure it?

I understand that CentOS-2 has now reached its EOL but we have a
legacy application that won't run on newer distros.

-- 
Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.

on 9-23-2009 11:41 PM Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) spake the
following:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was having yum errors while updating our CentOS-2 box. Further
> reading lead me to a readme file on the mirrors
> (http://mirror.centos.org/centos-2/readme.txt) and it gave me the new
> URL to use for CentOS-2 mirrors. I have edited /etc/yum.conf with the
> new URLs but I'm still having issues with yum giving me
"ValueError:
> unpack list of wrong size" errors.
> 
> Has anyone been able to update their yum configuration to be still
> able to use yum? How were you able to configure it?
> 
> I understand that CentOS-2 has now reached its EOL but we have a
> legacy application that won't run on newer distros.
> 
EOL means there will be no updates. So yum is not going to help you get
updates that don't exist. Are you sure that the app won't run on newer
distros, or you just might need a legacy library that isn't installed by
default on a newer distro?

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On 24/09/09 07:41, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
wrote:
> I was having yum errors while updating our CentOS-2 box. Further
> reading lead me to a readme file on the mirrors
> (http://mirror.centos.org/centos-2/readme.txt) and it gave me the new
> URL to use for CentOS-2 mirrors.
what did you have as the baseurl earlier and what have you changed it to 
now ?

- KB

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
wrote:
> on 9-23-2009 11:41 PM Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) spake the
following:
>>
>> I understand that CentOS-2 has now reached its EOL but we have a
>> legacy application that won't run on newer distros.
>>
> EOL means there will be no updates. So yum is not going to help you get
> updates that don't exist. Are you sure that the app won't run on
newer
> distros, or you just might need a legacy library that isn't installed
by
> default on a newer distro?
Hi Scott,

Thanks for the response.

The primary reason for our need to have the CentOS-2 mirrors is for
automated installation of packages if needed rather than getting the
latest package updates.

Also, as we have already put the system into production, it would be
best for us to make do with what's in there already.

Regards,
Matt

-- 
Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.