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New nx/freenx RPMS for CentOS-4 i386 in the Testing Repo
by Johnny Hughes 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

There are new versions of nx and freenx for CentOS-4 i386 in the testing repo: freenx-0.5.0-11.c4.i386.rpm nx-2.1.0-2.c4.i386.rpm I am using this on 3 servers and it seems at least as stable as the previous versions. These RPMS roll in the latest nx-2.1.x server components from nomachine.org (current CentOS-4 version has nx-1.5.x server components). The full screen patch was retained across versions and seems to work OK here as well. If you are using the CentOS version of NX / FreeNX, please test this version and provide feedback on this list. Barring any show stopping negative feedback, these RPMS will replace the current versions in CentOS extras in 2 weeks. Testing repository .repo file: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo Packages can be download manually here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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time stray on the latest centos release: 2.6.9-11.EL
by Blair Lowe 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, The clock on my laptop seems to be straying dramatically from the real time even if I turn off ntpd. Could it be the clock applet itself? After I run rdate with ntpd off, it starts to stray right away. This started in the last two weeks after doing many updates. Has anyone else seen this, or even fixed it? Thanks in advance, Blair.

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Updated PHP packages are now in the c4-testing repository
by Jim Perrin 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

There are updated packages for php version 5.1.6-1.2 in the c4-testing repository available at dev.centos.org for i386 and x86_64 arches. Also included is an update to php-pear. This update should also resolve the direct install issue experienced by some where php-pear conflicted with the package in the base repository. Please test these and report any issues you might have, as these will hopefully be the upgrade path for php5 in centosplus. Any feedback is welcomed, either via replying to this message, or by adding to the php5 tracking bug at http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1580 If you don't have it already... http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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Re: Metalinks for CentOS (all mirrors & checksums in one file)
by Anthony Bryan 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Metalinks contain mirror and p2p locations along with checksums and other metadata for faster and easier downloads. Downloads can be distributed between mirrors and checksums are automatically verified when it finishes. Mirrors have location and priority information to make the download more efficient. Metalinks for CentOS are automatically generated at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/centos/ by your mirror RoEduNet Iasi (http://www.iasi.roedu.net/) These are for CentOS 3.8 and 4.4. Here's what part of a .metalink looks like: <files> <file name="CentOS-4.4-i386-LiveCD.iso"> <os>Linux-x86</os> <size>721965056</size> <verification> <hash type="md5">747c9e33a10fdbf5919d9fd188ab7d23</hash> </verification> <resources> <url type="http" location="RO" preference="80"> http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/centos.org/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.4-i386-L iveCD.iso </url> <url type="http" location="US" preference="60"> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.4-i386-LiveCD.iso </url> <url type="http" location="US" preference="60"> http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.4-i386-LiveCD. iso </url> <url type="http" location="UK" preference="60"> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4. 4-i386-LiveCD.iso </url> </resources> Download clients are available for Unix, Mac, & Windows. aria2 RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 are at http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/aria2/info.html OpenOffice.org and many Linux/BSD distributions are using metalink. Here's a few places: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Metalink http://desktopbsd.net/index.php?id=73 http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=download http://www.archlinux.org/download/ http://www.redwall-firewall.com/content/view/14/33/ http://yui.mine.nu/berry/edownload.php (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]

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Gearing up for FOSDEM 2007
by Daniel de Kok 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hi all, According to [1] the project has arranged a stand at FOSDEM. Are things 'definite' enough to start booking a hotel/hostel? Since I am probably coming by train I can only take my laptop with me, and good cheer :). -- Daniel [1] http://wiki.fosdem.org/Stands

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Updated package for squid (CentOS 4.4)
by Ralph Angenendt 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

There's an updated package for squid in the development repository at <http://dev.centos.org/>. This fixes the problem with squid only having 1024 file descriptors available. The patch was "forwardported" from the squid package in CentOS 3.8. You get a new configuration variable in squid.conf with which you can control the number of file descriptors available for squid: # TAG: max_filedesc # The maximum number of open file descriptors. # #Default: # max_filedesc 1024 This package works here under a comparatively low load. So please test this package if you need more than 1024 file descriptors and report any issues or success with this package either here or at <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1603>. The package is at <http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.13.…> for i386 and <http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/x86_64/RPMS/squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.1…> for x86_64. Regards, Ralph

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php 5 and MSSQL
by Kevan Benson 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Is there any interest in adding MSSQL to php 5? It's fairly easy to modify the spec to produce this (I've done so in a previos version already), and I'll volunteer to make the changes if there's consensus it's worth doing. FreeTDS is required to build mssql support, and it's currently provided through rpmforge. I assume everyone would prefer to have the required library exist within centosplus so php-mssql could be installed without requiring a library from an external repo? So, what are your thoughts on this? I know I keep getting asked for it, so I assume there's at least some demand. -- - Kevan Benson - A-1 Networks

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vpopmail-mysql package
by Feizhou 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

Hello, I am taking a shot at vpopmail with mysql support for centos in a environment where qmail will not be used as the receiving mta. First will be a vpopmail package setup for mysql support only. Attached is the spec file. I have attached the source rpm to the howto. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/vpopmail?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=vpop… regards %define vdir /home/vpopmail Name: vpopmail-mysql Summary: A vpopmail package with mysql backend support Version: 5.4.17 Release: centos4.1.mysql.manydomains License: GPL Group: System Environment/Daemons URL: http://www.inter7.com/ Source0: vpopmail-%{version}.tar.gz Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root Requires: mysql Prereq: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu BuildPrereq: mysql-devel %description This package provides a virtual mail system complete with user account and domain management tools. The user account and domain information is stored in a mysql database and emails are stored in maildir format. vpopmail is designed for qmail so you will need other software to act as a LDA if you use MTA software other than qmail. This package supports mysql master/slave environments for clustering. %prep %setup -q -n vpopmail-5.4.17 %build %configure --enable-mysql-replication --enable-sql-logging --enable-auth-module=mysql --disable-users-big-dir --enable-valias --enable-libdir=%{_libdir}/mysql make %install rm -fr %{buildroot} make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install-strip %clean rm -fr %{buildroot} %pre #Add user and group account if necessary if [ -z "`/usr/bin/id -g vchkpw 2>/dev/null`" ]; then /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 91 -r vchkpw 2>&1 || : fi if [ -z "`/usr/bin/id -u vpopmail 2>/dev/null`" ]; then /usr/sbin/useradd -u 91 -r -M -d %{vdir} -s /sbin/nologin -c "Vpopmail User" -g vchkpw vpopmail 2>&1 || : fi %files %defattr (-,vpopmail,vchkpw) %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir} %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/bin %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/etc %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/include %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/lib %attr(0700,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/domains %attr(0751,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/bin/* %attr(0444,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/include/* %attr(0600,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/lib/* %attr(0644,vpopmail,vchkpw) %config(noreplace) %{vdir}/etc/vlimits.default %attr(0644,vpopmail,vchkpw) %config(noreplace) %{vdir}/etc/vpopmail.mysql %attr(0644,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/etc/inc_deps %attr(0644,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/etc/lib_deps %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/doc %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/doc/doc_html %attr(0755,vpopmail,vchkpw) %dir %{vdir}/doc/man_html %attr(0444,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/doc/doc_html/* %attr(0444,vpopmail,vchkpw) %{vdir}/doc/man_html/*

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New versions of Apt and Synaptic in the CentOS-Testing repository
by Johnny Hughes 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

We have had some issues with the apt that is currently in the Extras repository properly resolving some dependencies in CentOS. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1416 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1502 There are new apt and synaptic packages currently in the CentOS-Testing repository that correct these problems. The new version of apt also can use repomd repositories ... and the next version of CentOS-Release will contain a sources.list file that uses repomd and not rpm type repos for apt. The new RPMS are: apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-1.c4.i386.rpm apt-devel-0.5.15lorg3.2-1.c4.i386.rpm synaptic-0.57.2-3.c4.i386.rpm Available here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes #--------------------- # Example repomd repos for apt # URL: http://www.centos.org ### CentOS-4 APT repositories repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/os/i386 repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/addons/i386 repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/extras/i386 repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/updates/i386 repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/fasttrack/i386 #repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/centosplus/i386 #repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/contrib/i386 #repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/csgfs/i386

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Release processs for CentOS 5
by Johnny Hughes 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

<moved over from the CentOS list to CentOS-devel> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 01:06 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:32:29PM +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote: > >> Somebody knows if exists some roadmap about release beta process for CentOS > >> 5 in parallell with RedHat ?? Or we need ot wait until RedHat 5 will be > >> released?? > > > > I'm also curious if there's plans to do a separate Desktop and Server > > release. From what I saw in RHEL5 beta1, there's apparently a slightly > > different set of packages in each.... > > There is going to be a bit of a discussion on this soon, also howto > manage the various repos within each tree. > > - KB There are differences in the upstream release for Client and Server (much like the difference between AS, ES, WS, Red Hat Desktop, etc). We handled this in CentOS-3 and CentOS-4 by just releasing the AS package set and it contains all the other subsets. It is slightly different now, however, as there are separate yum repositories (and directories) for Server, Client, VM, Cluster*, etc. on the EL5 Beta2 CDs (much like CentOS has extras, centosplus, etc. :P). In a yum tree on the server this is not too hard, links can be created to connect the packages that are the same and all can co-exist in one tree. (that might also work OK for the Binary DVD too ... we might be able to fit all the packages on the DVD in separate repos/dirs and keep it under 4.3gb) As far as I know, ln -s or hardlinks will not translate to size savings (or even work) on an iso9660 CD ... therefore it seems that we may have to either: 1. Combine all the packages into a single repository (CentOS or Release or Server, etc.) This is similar to what we currently do on 3 and 4 now, with all the AS packages included. or 2. Release a CD set with Server and Client (and all the other repos on it ... showing everything) ... no idea how much space that takes yet or if it is doable. I would think (if we can't use links) that this set would be 6-9 discs in size. or 3. Release a Client and Server CD, and a Client and Server DVD ... but put everything in one yum tree with a Client and Server and all the other dirs/repos under that tree. (I would imagine that each set would be 4-5 discs in size) I think 3 is the way that makes the most sense ... it also requires the most disk space and bandwidth ... and requires the most maintenance. Option 1 is less disk space, in keeping with what we currently do, BUT creates an install that is not much like upstream. Once installed, either of these methods becomes the same as all yum repos should be enabled by default, unless we have a centOS-release- client and centOS-release-server ... so that if you install client, you get only client repos by default and for server, only server repos by default .... and you could enable the others too manually on each if you want. The developers need to play with all these ideas and test several things before we can even smartly discuss these options. Once we have a better idea what this entails, we can discuss it further. I'm sure Oracle is waiting on our decision, so we should make it soon :P Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Updated ruby packages
by Jim Perrin 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

There are updated ruby packages in the development repository at dev.centos.org. The updated packages bring ruby to 1.8.5. Additional packages are now available for ruby-mysql and ruby-postgresql also. These packages are the gem files providing mysql.so and the like. Please provide feedback for these packages. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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PostgreSQL 8.1.4 in the Testing repository
by Johnny Hughes 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

All, We have a PostgreSQL 8.1.4 in the testing repository. Would everyone who has used it / is using it please reply to this thread. We want to move this to CentOSPlus (this version has been in has been in testing since May, and a version 8 has been in testing since Dec of last year). The repo file is here for testing: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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php 5.2 vs php 5.0.4 in CentOS 4.4 Contrib repo
by Vikas 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

I needed php 5 or greater on my centos server. I enabled CentOSPlus by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (Based on http://www.jimohalloran.com/2005/08/30/php-5-for-centos-41/) But I got php 5.0.4, on running my application I am facing some bugs. A lot of bugs have been fixed http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php after the release of 5.0.4 close to an year ago. Is there any reason why we do not have php 5.2 in the CentOSPlus repo ? I would be willing to work to put php5.2 in the CentOSPlus repo, any pointers on what I should do ? Thanks for your help. -- Vikas

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RPMS and REPOS and REPO-Linkages
by Karanbir Singh 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

When an rpm is built for CentOS-Extras or CentOS-Plus, is it safe to assume that people using these repo's only use them for specific rpms ( eg, someone with a stock CentOS install might use the CentOS-Plus repo for php-5 and only php-5 ) or are most people enabling the entire repo ? This question comes from the idea of when building a package, should a rpm, hosted in CentOS-Plus link against only [base]+[updates] and only use the minimum possible set of packages from [centosplus] ? So as to have a situation wherein you can use selective packages from CentOS-Plus, while not needing any support stuff from there ( eg. postfix-mysql in CentOS-Plus should link against mysql-4.1 since thats whats in [base] rather than mysql-5 which is in CentOS Plus ) This does create a risk that we might end up creating packages that are themselves incompatible with other packages from the same repository, but work fine when used with the [base] packages for the same functionality. The other option is to have the entire CentOS-Plus repo enabled for any packages built for the same repo, which might mean that using php-5 from CentOS-Plus needs MySQL-5 and pgsql-8 from CentOS Plus also installed. Comments ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Horde rpm under review for Fedora Extras
by Greg Swallow 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

FYI... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189195 The maintainer would probably appreciate some review by people using/developing the CentOS horde rpms. Greg

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CentOS Xen kernels
by Luke Crawford 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Is anyone working on porting the xensource-provided RHEL3 and RHEL4 Xen kernels to centOS? I've been poking the xensource-provided kernels, and they seem to work okay (though only on i686 platforms- I haven't gotten 'em to compile on x86_64) on my client's RHEL systems. I host a bunch of CentOS Xen DomUs, so it would be really cool if I could re-use the "poke at the RHEL kernels" work for those CentOS domains as well- but from what I understand, I'm not supposed to just re-distribute the RHEL stuff without stripping out some stuff.

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New GFS for CentOS-3
by John Newbigin 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

There is a bug fix update for GFS on CentOS-3 as per http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0728.html http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/GFS-6.0.2.36-1.i386.rpm http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-1.i386.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-1.i38… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-6.0.2.36-1.i686.rpm http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-1.i686.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-1.i68… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-modules-hugemem-6.0.2.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-modules-smp-6.0.2.36-1… There are signed with my jnewbigin-csgfs(a)ict.swin.edu.au and need to be resigned with the CentOS-3 key. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel

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RE: [CentOS-devel] Updated PHP packages are now in the c4-testingrepository
by Alex Palenschat 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

We have been using the php packages in the testing repository for some time without issue on an internal web server. We do not use the PEAR package however. alex

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php-pear from dev.centos.org repo
by Ryan Courtnage 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hello, I'm attempting to update the PHP packages on my CentOS 4.4 server (x86_64). I'm currently running PHP 5.0.x from the "centosplus" repo. The goal is to run PHP 5.1.x, which is in the "testing" (dev.centos.org) repository. However, I'm finding that attempts to "yum update php\*" results in a php-pear dependency error: ---snip--- Error: Missing Dependency: php = 5.0.4-5.centos4 is needed by package php-pear ---snip--- I've tried to sidestep the issue by removing the currently installed php* packages, and then installing the stuff from dev.centos.org. Doing this, I find that php-pear-1.4.9-1.centos.noarch.rpm doesn't install the PEAR DB module (DB.php), which my applications require. Has anyone else seen this? What am I doing wrong? Thanks Ryan

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building centos livecd [was [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] unionfs and centos 4.4]
by beast 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Sorry for cross posting, but this might the appropriate list. --beast -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] unionfs and centos 4.4 Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:28:59 +0700 From: beast <beast(a)ldap.or.id> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> References: <45505F60.2010109(a)ldap.or.id> <1162902346.5010.81.camel(a)myth.home.local> Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 17:26 +0700, beast wrote: > >> I have tried to create a livecd from Centos 4.4, it require to compile >> unionfs as a module. >> I'm using Centos kernel source kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm and unionfs >> v1.1.5 but its giving error while compiling. >> <http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src…> >> >> Is anyone having success story building centos livecd from scratch? >> >> --beast >> > > There is a unionfs module that you can use already on the liveCD ... > just copy it into place in the new kernel directory and do: > > depmod -a > > The version used on the liveCD is also in the tar file here: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/build/livecd/ > I have tried to build using livecd-0.9.1.tgz, but it gives the error while booting the CD: starting unionfs support insmod: cannot insert module '/tmp/unionfs.ko': invalid module format: (-1): Exec format error error inserting module unionfs (1) ... I have followed README instructions, including compile unionfs againts current kernel (kernel-2.6.9-42.livecd.c4) and able to modprobe unionfs mannually. The instructions seems different from the original linux-live script README: 1. it compile squashfs int kernel, while LL-script expect to find squashfs.ko (however from the boot msg, it seems able to load squashfs, no error) 2. it ask for different kernel version (ie `uname -r`_i686) 3. modify the existing linux isntallation (or do i ned to chroot before running build-livecd.sh -sl ?) Many thanks. --beast

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Problem with anaconda when install x86_64 version
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, all! Sorry if this is offtopic, but I don't know where I can found answer. I rebuild RHEL4 for x86_64 from source. I create install CDs iso and try install it. All packets installed success. But after this, when "Install boot loader" (grub) I get error from anaconda (see attaches). I can not found resolve for this problem in inet. :( How I can fix it problem? Thanks.

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centos on hp proliant dl 580
by Marek Mahut 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hello all, someone with experiance of centos 4 on hp proliant DL580 (the old one - the white one) ? I have some questions... Thank in advance, Marek Mahut.

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