Centos 8 End Of Support

[nicola.piazzi]

I have all my efa installations on CentOS Linux release 8.4.2105
At 31/12/2021 this release reached end of support so dnf give an error in upgrade
This error reflects also on 13) Update Now function of efa menu so i cant update my system
Is there a way to bypass this and upgrade efa anyway ?


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--- Welcome to the eFa Configuration program ---
--- https://www.efa-project.org ---
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You are currently running eFa-4.0.4.

Please choose an option:

0) Logout from ssh 9) MariaDB Recovery
1) Shell 10) Apache Settings
2) Reboot system 11) Virus Settings
3) Halt system 12) System Restore
4) IP Settings 13) Update Now
5) Tunables 14) Maintenance Mode
6) MailWatch Settings 15) Let's Encrypt
7) Mail Settings 16) DKIM and DMARC
8) Spam Settings 17) Webmin
18) Fail2Ban
[eFa] : 13

Update now, are you sure? (y/N): y
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 124 B/s | 38 B 00:00
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist
Press [Enter] key to continue...

[nicola.piazzi]

I found that is possible to update from efa4.repo and epel repos
Is a good thing to do so or it can cause conflicts ?


-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 719 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-AppStream.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 704 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-BaseOS.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1130 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-ContinuousRelease.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 318 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-Debuginfo.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 732 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-Devel.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 704 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-Extras.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 719 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-FastTrack.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 740 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-HighAvailability.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 693 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-Media.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 706 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-Plus.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 723 Feb 4 2021 CentOS-Linux-PowerTools.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1124 Sep 15 2021 CentOS-Linux-Sources.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Apr 7 08:33 eFa4.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1485 Sep 4 2021 epel-modular.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1564 Sep 4 2021 epel-playground.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1422 Sep 4 2021 epel.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1584 Sep 4 2021 epel-testing-modular.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1521 Sep 4 2021 epel-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 165 Feb 4 2021 webmin.repo

[max_of_tl]

How do you even get to the menu. I forgot. I want to check mine to see if it still works as well.

[shawniverson]

Hello,

You have a few options...

Switch to CentOS 8 Stream
Switch to Almalinux 8
Switch to RockyLinux 8

[nicola.piazzi]

Yes, but for now it cam be a good idea update only from extras and efa4 repository ?
At the beginning i havent installed stream because was unsupported

[shawniverson]

Yeah that should be fine for now.

[jkosharek]

Can one update/upgrade eFa4 on CentOS 8.5.2111 to CentOS 8 Stream, or is it a complete rebuild?

[kneedrag]

I just found this link which explains how to upgrade to the stream version.

https://www.centos.org/news-and-events/ ... -stream-8/

Seems to have worked on my install although it is complaining about trying to download the newest webmin which has only just been released by the looks of it. So I will give it a few hours and try again. But the centos components did not have any issues.