CentOS 6 vs the world

If, like me, you are a fool and still have CentOS 6 installs you have to maintain, you might run into the following problem:

https://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] problem making ssl connection
Trying other mirror.
https://vault.centos.org/6.10/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] problem making ssl connection
Trying other mirror.
https://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] problem making ssl connection
Trying other mirror.

The solution is to update curl and yum by hand:

wget https://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/x86_64/Packages/python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-11.el6.noarch.rpm
wget https://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/x86_64/Packages/yum-3.2.29-81.el6.centos.0.1.noarch.rpm
wget https://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/x86_64/Packages/curl-7.19.7-54.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
wget https://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/x86_64/Packages/libcurl-7.19.7-54.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh libcurl-7.19.7-54.el6_10.x86_64.rpm curl-7.19.7-54.el6_10.x86_64.rpm yum-3.2.29-81.el6.centos.0.1.noarch.rpm python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-11.el6.noarch.rpm