CentOS 7 EOL Updating Packages - connorethanjay/Champlain-College-CNCS-Notes GitHub Wiki

Why do we need to do this?

CentOS 7 (Log01) has become End of Life (No longer supported, which has had a big impact on many IT environments), because of this, we need to update the Yum package manager's repository config file.

  • By default, CentOS 7 uses mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org and #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org.
    • All of the baseurl lines need to be uncommented, and all lines with these URLs need to be changed to vault.centos.org.
    • After updating the config file, clear the cache via yum clean all (with sudouser permissions).

Example config file after completion: