At the end of 2020 RedHat declared End Of Life for CentOS 6 and dropped the repositories. But there are cases when you still need this ancient platform.
The repos I need:
- base;
- extras;
- updates;
- sclo;
- sclo-rh.
EPEL is still alive but to avoid issues in the future I’ve made a mirror for it too.
I’ve used CentOS 6 to make a mirror for CentOS 6. You’ll need 2 packages:
yum install createrepo yum-utils
Config for mirror source centos.repo
:
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://vault.epel.cloud/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
exclude=gnome* kde* libreoffice*
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://vault.epel.cloud/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
baseurl=http://vault.epel.cloud/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
baseurl=https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/6/$basearch/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
[sclo]
name=CentOS-6 - SCLo
baseurl=http://vault.epel.cloud/centos/6/sclo/$basearch/sclo/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
[sclo-rh]
name=CentOS-6 - SCLo rh
baseurl=http://vault.epel.cloud/centos/6/sclo/$basearch/rh/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
Script to sync repos with support for groups sync.sh
:
#!/bin/bash
REPOS="base extras updates epel sclo sclo-rh"
DST=/opt/repos
CFG=${DST}/centos.repo
for REPO in ${REPOS}; do
echo "===================== Sync ${REPO}"
reposync --gpgcheck -ln -c ${CFG} --repoid=${REPO} --download_path=${DST} --downloadcomps --download-metadata
cd ${DST}/${REPO}
createrepo -v ${DST}/${REPO} -g comps.xml --worker 2 --update || \
createrepo -v ${DST}/${REPO} --worker 2 --update || \
createrepo -v ${DST}/${REPO} --worker 2
done
I’ve decided not to include key --delete
that will remove packages if they are removed from the server to keep the mirror if the source will also be removed.
Key file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
:
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Key file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Key file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
The resulting directory you publish with nginx:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name _;
root /opt/repos;
location / {
autoindex on;
}
}
And use with config like:
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/base/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
exclude=gnome* kde* libreoffice*
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/updates/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/extras/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[sclo]
name=CentOS-6 - SCLo
baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/sclo/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
[sclo-rh]
name=CentOS-6 - SCLo RH
baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/sclo-rh/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 -
baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/epel/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6