Re: sysupdates yum repos are gone

Hi,

On Thu, 2025-12-25 at 13:16 +0800, Ruohang Feng wrote:
> I'm writing to inquire about the status of the sysupdates yum
> repositories. We've noticed that these repositories are now returning
> 404 errors, and I wanted to understand whether this is an intentional
> change or a temporary issue.

This is an intentional change. Removed them in full (see below)


> The howto page at https://yum.postgresql.org/howto/ still references
> the sysupdates repository, stating it "distributes LLVM and CLANG
> packages for Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux for the times when RHEL releases
> a minor update and clones need to take some time to catch up."

Sorry about that, forgot to remove mention to sysupdates repo from
there. Fixed.

>
> The repository definitions still exist in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-
> redhat-all.repo (from pgdg-redhat-repo-42.0-63), causing dnf update to
> report errors when these repos are enabled.

Are you sure? I removed them along with -62. Can you please check if you
have an pgdg-redhat-all.repo.rpmnew file under /etc/yum.repos.d or not?

>
> Questions:
>
> Have the sysupdates repositories been intentionally removed or
> deprecated?

Yes. See this news item for details:

https://yum.postgresql.org/news/postgresql-rpms-multiple-rhel-minor-versions/

>
> If so, is there an alternative approach now recommended for
> Rocky/AlmaLinux users who need updated LLVM/Clang packages during the
> RHEL minor version lag period?

We now support multiple RHEL minor versions, so this is not a problem
anymore.

>
> Should users simply disable these repository definitions in their
> configurations going forward?
>

Again, latest repo RPMs do not have those.


> Thank you for your time and for all the work you do for the PostgreSQL
> community and happy holidays

You are welcome. Happy holidays!

Regards,

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Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
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