On 03/02/2017 12:42 PM, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > On 02/03/17 19:50, James Hogarth wrote: >> On 2 Mar 2017 03:49, "John R Pierce" <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Before we remove it from mirror, it will all be moved here: http://vault.centos.org/5.11/ It will be there forever .. just like all the CentOS-3 and CentOS-4 trees are as well.
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