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/centos/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). -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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.
On 02/03/17 19:50, James Hogarth wrote:> 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.Thanks for the advice. I'll try and set up a mirror asap, but I'd still like to know when the mirrors will be removed if anyone has that information.
In article <CAGkb5vexU7eoU=-ASF_uPN_PA68QQi2RU0HdPhozZEYDE0VqEg at mail.gmail.com>, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:> > This is especially important if you use anything from EPEL as EPEL5 will be > removed when RHEL goes EOL.You mean just thrown away, or archived somewhere? Just thrown away would seem rather irresponsible... Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org