[Rocky 8.9] Getting 404 Error on Official Rocky Mirror List

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Hey All,

So I have some VMs and compute node provisioning images currently running 8.9 for some compatibility reasons. Until recently, this hasn’t been an issue. However, when I now boot some of my nodes which require just-in-time nvidia installs, I am getting the following:

Rocky Linux 8.9 - AppStream                                                            6.5 kB/s |  26 kB     00:03
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'appstream':
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-8.9 (IP: 146.75.34.132)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-8.9 (IP: 146.75.34.132)

Taking a look, it seems that despite Rocky 8.9 having a lot of mirror sites hosting the OS & repo and the OS not reaching EOL until 2029, the mirrors page no longer lists any Rocky 8.9 options, while options for it seems all other versions of 8 are around. Is this a known issue?

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Hi,

8.9 isn’t supported, so effectively is EOL. 8.10 is the supported release. I suggest updating to 8.10. You may find updates in the vault repos, but these won’t be supported.

Regards Tom.

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Not an issue. By design.

Rocky 8 is supported to 2029. From 2019 to 2024 the “8” did get additional features as “point updates”. Release of each new point update obsoletes the previous. Only the latest has support.

The mirrors do keep (empty) directories of the old point updates mainly as historical record.

A design principle of Enterprise Linux is that point updates should not break compatibility.

Red Hat does sell extended support for some point updates of RHEL, but 8.9 was never one of them.
If a third party made a component that did work only in 8.9, then that component had very short use.

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It has happened in the past, e.g. with CrowdStrike and Checkpoint cpla.

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