Limping along with CentOS 6
I have a CentOS 6 system that’s not Internet accessible and that I need to limp along until I can orchestrate an upgrade to something newer (and maintained). It’s accumulated a lot of cruft over the years, so swapping in a new OS install isn’t all that straightforward. But I also need to configure OpenVPN on the box (I’m remote for the holidays) and, well, CentOS shut the repos down hard. I was getting: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found" A visit to a parent URL got me this: Not helpful or useful, really. I did find the “vault,” however, e.g. https://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/i386/repodata/ , and added it to the Yum repos: # yum-config-manager --add-repo=https://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/i386/ Then, just edited /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to add enabled= 0 to every entry. Now, installing OpenVPN worked: # yum install -y openvpn easy-rsa Totally a hack, but at le