The 'bash download_mirror.sh' step seems to be very fragile. e.g. this morning I tried to start fresh and it failed at several points. ------ using kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7 to search kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.src.rpm ------ --> run: sudo -E yumdownloader -q -C --source kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7 Looking for kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.src.rpm No source RPM found for kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 Nothing to download ------ using epel-rpm-macros-7-18 to search epel-rpm-macros-7-18.noarch.rpm ------ --> run: sudo -E yumdownloader -q -C epel-rpm-macros-7-18 --archlist=noarch,x86_64 Looking for epel-rpm-macros-7-18.noarch.rpm... No Match for argument epel-rpm-macros-7-18 Nothing to download and the tarball downloads failed on. --2018-07-11 13:13:28-- http://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd.git/snapshot/fd5c78694f3f1c87... Resolving git.infradead.org (git.infradead.org)... 198.137.202.133, 2607:7c80:54:e::133 Connecting to git.infradead.org (git.infradead.org)|198.137.202.133|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip] Saving to: 'fd5c78694f3f1c875e293de7a641ba8a3d60d00d.tar.gz' 2018-07-11 13:14:34 (0.00 B/s) - 'fd5c78694f3f1c875e293de7a641ba8a3d60d00d.tar.gz' saved [0] tar: This does not look like a tar archive gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now mv: cannot stat 'linux-tpmdd-fd5c786/drivers/char/tpm': No such file or directory tar: tpm: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors /localdisk tss2-930.tar.gz /localdisk/output/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/downloads /localdisk ./tarball-dl.sh: line 156: git: command not found ./tarball-dl.sh: line 157: pushd: ibmtpm20tss-tss: No such file or directory ./tarball-dl.sh: line 158: git: command not found /localdisk mv: cannot stat 'ibmtpm20tss-tss': No such file or directory tar: tss2-930: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ./tarball-dl.sh: line 165: popd: directory stack empty Is this really going to be our default operating mode? Never knowing, day by day, when the next package will be dropped from an upstream source. Is it possible for strarlingX to host it's own mirrors... of at least the needed subset of packages? Scott