CentOS 6.5 Vault Repository Missing

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Hey all,

I went to go and pull some rpms from the CentOS 6.5 vault, but the CentOS-Vault repo file is referencing urls that no longer exist. Navigating to the URL, I noticed that the OS folder now only contains the SOURCE folder. I noticed that this is also true for 6.6, 7.0, and others. I already have the most up-to-date CentOS-release rpm. I’ve done some searching and can’t find any information about those repos. Are those repos down for maintenance or has the structure been modified permanently?

Thanks, Will

7 thoughts on - CentOS 6.5 Vault Repository Missing

  • On a similar subject: How can I mirror CentOS-vault? To the contrary to CentOS public mirror I do realize I need to run mirroring script not 4
    times a day but maybe 4 time a Month at most…

    Valeri

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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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  • Well, there is no direct possibility to mirror CentOS-vault, at least not with rsync (you can mirror http content if you want). Each time I see people pointing their yum config to vault I want to cry …

    *but* because it’s a free world and that people can run machines without any security updates (as long as they don’t complain , but still a *really* bad idea …), vault.CentOS.org nodes exist

    As stated in the http://vault.CentOS.org/notonvault.html file, two external mirrors are providing full access to Vault content, and also available through rsync :

    mirror.nsc.liu.se::CentOS-store/
    mirror.symnds.com::CentOS-vault-full/

    Cheers,

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  • No, I’m not going to point _my_ yum config to vault… But it is just convenient to have local copy of vault. You can easily shuffle packages etc. One example: I have a few workstations in the Department that have powerful a bit older NVIDIA cards, “legacy” as NVIDIA considers them. With screen configuration we have it is only proprietary binary driver that we can use. Legacy NVIDIA driver didn’t survive the jump from CentOS 6.5 to
    6.6 (so much for Enterprisiness…). And NVIDIA is (and will be) reluctant to do something as well. So, I’m rolling back xorg,…

    Great, thanks I’ll see if I can mirror from one of them.

    Also, I don’t mind the mirror of CentOS vault on bay.uchicago.edu to be added to the list of the two public mirrors above – once I have it in sync that is (once you have dedicated box for mirrors, a few extra mirrors do not change things much).

    In the past I was mirroring vault from kernel.org, but they dropped maintaining CentOS vault mirror a year or two ago. If I do not succeed, I’ll ask you for extra help if you do not mind.

    Thanks. Valeri

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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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  • Am 06.11.2014 um 18:06 schrieb Fabian Arrotin :

    this possibility is great to test special configurations and the corresponding update process (e.g. setup 6.5 test system).

  • Hi Fabian,

    I’ve changed rsync to mirror.symnds.com::CentOS-vault-full; CentOS-vault on bay.uchicago.edu is now in sync (the sync is performed once a day, which for vault is sufficient IMHO, let me know if you want be do it more often), and it is accessible as:

    http://bay.uchicago.edu/CentOS-vault rsync://bay.uchicago.edu/CentOS-vault ftp://bay.uchicago.edu/CentOS-vault

    I don’t mind if you add pointers to the above for public use (the machine has 3 Gbps uplink speed currently, will probably be upgraded to 10 Gbps within a year or so, no traffic shaping was necessary so far). This same machine serves CentOS public mirror (and a few more public mirrors as well).

    Thanks a lot for you help and for the great job you guys are doing!

    Valeri

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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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