November 2007 - devel - lists.centos.org

anaconda dependency calculation?
by Nicholas Byrne 04 Aug '25

04 Aug '25

Hi all, I'm trying to find a tool that calculates all dependencies for a specific package or group of packages for use with CentOS 5 (beta) with the intention of putting together a custom single CD build of CentOS 5. With CentOS 4 i used a python script that used the hdrlist module to find all dependencies which borrowed code from a number of sources. I've looked at yumdownloader and how it checks dependencies (using the --resolve option) but if i pass it the list of packages defined in say the Base and the Core yum groups which generally form an absolute minimal install i end up with about 200 packages. If i do a custom install (using beta 1 disks) and deselect everything i end up with over 300 packages. So i'm guessing anaconda calculates dependencies in a slightly different way, can anyone point me to files/code where i should be looking to find out? Thanks very much in advance for help Nick This e-mail is the property of Quadriga Worldwide Ltd, intended for the addressee only and confidential. Any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from Quadriga may be monitored. Quadriga cannot guarantee any message delivery method is secure or error-free. Information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. We do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in this message and/or attachment that arise as a result of transmission. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Quadriga.

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Help offer on Sparc front
by Hugo van der Kooij 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just received a SunBlade150 which I would like to put to good use. I understand there is a Centos port underway for the Sparc line. If it is possible to trash the harddisk and fill it with the bare stuff to make it work I am willing to lend access to the system for developers and also do some things myself. I am not a programmer but I can spot the incidental error and maybe fix a typo or at least do my best to provide serious feedback in attempts to capture, reproduce and solve issues. If there is a basic kit somewhere to turn the former Solaris machine and set it on the road to Centos 5 I am willing to add my weight and push the cart along. Hugo. - -- hvdkooij(a)vanderkooij.org http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc A: Yes. >Q: Are you sure? >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? Bored? Click on http://spamornot.org/ and rate those images. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHHl8BBvzDRVjxmYERAtwIAKCajwRD8ZIbbQsVRiA89+9OYD30KQCfR6gw uIbicj9rZqC/HdYv0fXosB0= =Iaaf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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presto / deltarpm
by Karanbir Singh 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

hi, The idea of yum-presto and deltarpm support on mirror.centos.org is something that seems to be worth visiting again. I am just wondering if there is anyone who would like to grab the issue, do the testing, workout whats involved and then try and come up with an implementation plan ? Would be good if you already knew how yum and repomd type repositories worked. Anyone interested and have the time ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Interest in assisting with the Centos s390 disto
by Hand, Ray 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started. Thanks, Ray Hand

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HTTP installation method and RELEASE-NOTES file
by Ray Van Dolson 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi all; ran this question by the anaconda list, and perhaps this is a CentOS specific issue. In any case, maybe someone here can clarify... I notice if I boot CentOS 5 with the askmethod param and choose HTTP and point to my CentOS directory which is just a copy of all the files from the CD's, it errors out, and I am forced to revert to the CD method. The error I see on the console and in my webserver logs indicate that anaconda is trying to look for the following files: RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8.html RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html RELEASE-NOTES-en_US Where the only files on the CD's are RELEASE-NOTES-en.html and RELEASE-NOTES-en. The anaconda folks seem to think that CentOS should be using the full en_US variant: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2007-November/msg00130.… I don't see a mantis bug on this issue -- has anyone else run into it? Am I just doing something dumb here? Ray

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A question on the CentOS forum
by Akemi Yagi 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

I'm forwarding this question posted on the forum. Perhaps someone wants to respond to it? http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11376&forum=42 Note: you can skip the <Off Thread> part. Akemi

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content / role overlap for the -docs and potential translators lists
by Karanbir Singh 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

hi guys, Just wondering what people think about creating another list for centos-translators and regularly requesting membership there from other sources ( like posting something on the wiki / website / other lists etc ) ? The one issue that I can see is that there will be loads of overlap in interest with the centos-docs list that already has most of the people doing the translation work, and if people want to help with the wiki translation as well - perhaps the -docs list is the best place for the translators a well ? Just thinking out loud at the moment, opinions welcome! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Release Notes translations
by Ralph Angenendt 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Morning guys, CentOS 5.1 is nearing its release. And we're going to have Release Notes for it. This time the release notes will live on wiki.centos.org, not on the ISOs itself. See <http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.1> If anybody of you has some time over the weekend and is interested to translate these notes into a language which is *not* - German - Dutch - Romanian (though we maybe could need one more translator there) - Czech (same as for Romanian) - French - Brazilian Portuguese - Spanish - Japanese (same as for Romanian) then please say "here" today. (Somehow I completely forgot about languages other than those above - anyone willing to sell me a spare brain?). The translations should be done on monday, but as those are living documents, complete translation can take longer. So is anybody interested? If you are: Open an account for yourself on http://wiki.centos.org/ (FirstnameLastname, e.g. JoeyMiller) and send me the account name, as translation will happen on the wiki. I'll put you into the correct group then. So do I hear some "Here!"s? If yes - thank you in advance. Cheers, Ralph

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IcedTea
by Daniel de Kok 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hi all, IcedTea for CentOS 5/i386 is now available through the CentOS-testing repository. IcedTea provides a development platform/runtime environment based on OpenJDK[1]. It is basically OpenJDK, with the binary plugs replaced by stubs or GNU Classpath code. These packages were built upon the excellent work of the IcedTea and Fedora projects. To use IcedTea with some Java programs that are included in CentOS like Ant, you also need a new jpackage-utils package that is also available through the testing repository. Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the CentOS Wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Take care, Daniel PS. IcedTea for CentOS 5/x86_64 will soon be available. PPS. IcedTea may or may not work out of the box with Java applications included in CentOS 5. E.g. CentOS 5 Eclipse doesn't work here, but Eclipse from eclipse.org runs fine (after setting the compiler level to 1.5.0).

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Since there is discussion on s390
by Mats Hellman 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Since we are discussing a S390 port here I'm wondering about the SPARC port. Is there any plans on releasing a Sparc port anytime? Regards, Mats Hellman Systems Administrator Samfundet Folkhälsan Finland ########################################### This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the system manager.

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centosplus Support at ATrpms!
by Axel Thimm 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi, I started supporting centosplus kernels directly at ATrpms, e.g. all kmdls for C4 and C5 plus (latest) kernels are being built. I would call this service experimental still, as I had some feedback by some users, but not nearly enough to make any more serious announcement. Also I'm missing the src.rpm for the centosplus kernel from 2.6.18-8.1.15. The binary packages are there, just not the src.rpm. Maybe that's not that usrgent, as there will probably be a -55 centosplus kernel soon, I guess. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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dovecot-1.0.7-3 for CentOSPlus 4
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Here's a SRPM for dovecot 1.0.7 for CentOSPlus 4, which replaces the old and busted dovecot 0.99. http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/files/dovecot-1.0.7-3.src.rpm -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet(a)gmail.com> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed

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problem about customizing CentOS
by Hao Xu 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi! I was trying to build a customized CentOS 5 with all the update rpms integrated, on a CentOS 5 box. I have installed anaconda, anaconda-runtime, bogl, booty, netpbm, netpbm-progs and mkisofs in the building box. The CentOS 5 installation of the building box is fully updated. The following is what I did: 1) Create repo data # createrepo -g comps.xml -c /tmp /centos/5-respin/os/i386/CentOS Repo data was generated all right. 2) buildinstall # /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall --pkgorder os/i386/pkgorder.txt \ --version 5 --product CentOS --release CentOS-5-respin \ --prodpath CentOS /centos/5-respin/os/i386 >/tmp/buildinstall.err 2>&1 Here's the output of buildinstall: Running buildinstall... /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822 /centos/5-respin /centos/5-respin Building images... Assembling package list... Expanding text packages... Expanding graphical packages... retrieving timezones Creating nsswitch.conf Creating libuser.conf Fixing up /etc/man.config to point into /mnt/sysimage Running mkfontdir... Creating SELinux policy... Getting pango modules Getting gtk2 input method modules Getting gtk2 gdk-pixbuf loaders Scrubbing trees... /tmp/treedir.4822/image-template ARCH=x86_64 BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=([0]="1") BASH_ARGV=([0]="/tmp/treedir.4822/image-template") BASH_LINENO=([0]="0") BASH_SOURCE=([0]="/tmp/treedir.4822/image-template/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree") BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="1" [2]="17" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='3.1.17(1)-release' COLORTERM=gnome-terminal CVS_RSH=ssh DEBUG= DIRSTACK=() DISPLAY=localhost:11.0 EUID=0 GROUPS=() G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 HOME=/root HOSTNAME=centos5-64.in.linx HOSTTYPE=x86_64 IFS=$' \t\n' KDEDIR=/usr KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 KDE_NO_IPV6=1 LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s' LIBDIR=lib64 LOGNAME=root LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.flac=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.mpc=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.wav=01;35:' MACHTYPE=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu MAIL=/var/mail/root OLDPWD=/centos/5-respin OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=4834 PS4='+ ' PWD=/tmp/treedir.4822/image-template/usr/bin PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments SHLVL=5 SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-vfqlfC2592/agent.2592 SSH_CLIENT='172.16.0.102 47665 22' SSH_CONNECTION='172.16.0.102 47665 172.16.0.14 22' STRIP=strip TERM=xterm UID=0 USER=root WINDOWID=52428884 _=/tmp/treedir.4822/image-template/usr/bin p=/tmp/treedir.4822/image-template Scrubbing trees... /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage ARCH=x86_64 BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=([0]="1") BASH_ARGV=([0]="/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage") BASH_LINENO=([0]="0") BASH_SOURCE=([0]="/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree") BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="1" [2]="17" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='3.1.17(1)-release' COLORTERM=gnome-terminal CVS_RSH=ssh DEBUG= DIRSTACK=() DISPLAY=localhost:11.0 EUID=0 GROUPS=() G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 HOME=/root HOSTNAME=centos5-64.in.linx HOSTTYPE=x86_64 IFS=$' \t\n' KDEDIR=/usr KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 KDE_NO_IPV6=1 LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s' LIBDIR=lib64 LOGNAME=root LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.flac=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.mpc=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.wav=01;35:' MACHTYPE=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu MAIL=/var/mail/root OLDPWD=/centos/5-respin OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=4834 PS4='+ ' PWD=/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/bin PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments SHLVL=5 SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-vfqlfC2592/agent.2592 SSH_CLIENT='172.16.0.102 47665 22' SSH_CONNECTION='172.16.0.102 47665 172.16.0.14 22' STRIP=strip TERM=xterm UID=0 USER=root WINDOWID=52428884 _=/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/bin p=/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage Compressing .mo files in stage2 images... Creating fontconfig cache Creating debug dir Patching python library... /centos/5-respin Cleaning ramdisk install images... Creating repository metadata... Error: groupfile /centos/5-respin/os/i386/CentOS/base/comps.xml cannot be found. createrepo [options] directory-of-packages Options: -u, --baseurl <url> = optional base url location for all files -o, --outputdir <dir> = optional directory to output to -x, --exclude = files globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times -q, --quiet = run quietly -g, --groupfile <filename> to point to for group information (precreated) (<filename> relative to directory-of-packages) -v, --verbose = run verbosely -c, --cachedir <dir> = specify which dir to use for the checksum cache -U, --update-info-location <url> = acquire package update metadata -h, --help = show this help -V, --version = output version -p, --pretty = output xml files in pretty format. Getting package order... PYTHONPATH=/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder /centos/5-respin/os/i386 i386 CentOS Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder", line 33, in ? from yuminstall import YumSorter File "/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 29, in ? from packages import recreateInitrd File "/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 19, in ? import iutil File "/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 16, in ? import os, isys, string, stat File "/tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 18, in ? import _isys ImportError: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/_isys.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 Making images... Found keymap override, using it cannot find package kernel in path /centos/5-respin/os/i386/CentOS No i586 kernel, trying i686... unpacking /centos/5-respin/os/i386/CentOS/kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686.rpm.i686 Building initrd.img /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 261: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/modlist: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 261: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/modlist: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 247: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/moddeps: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 247: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/moddeps: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 314: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/modlist: No such file or directory Wrote /tmp/makebootdisk.initrdimage.16060 (2468k compressed) Building isolinux directory mkdir: cannot create directory `/centos/5-respin/os/i386/isolinux': File exists 192000 pixels, 68078 bytes, (29.09% compression) mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images.x86: line 104: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/syslinux/syslinux-nomtools: No such file or directory unpacking /centos/5-respin/os/i386/CentOS/kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686.rpm.i686 Building i686 guest initrd.img /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 261: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/modlist: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 261: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/modlist: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 247: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/moddeps: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 247: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/moddeps: No such file or directory /centos/5-respin/os/i386/buildinstall.tree.4822/mk-images: line 314: /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/modlist: No such file or directory Wrote /tmp/makebootdisk.initrdimage.16060 (2464k compressed) Building minstg.img Running mksquashfs /tmp/instimage.dir.16060 /tmp/minstg2.img -all-root -no-fragments Creating little endian 3.0 filesystem on /tmp/minstg2.img.16060, block size 65536. Little endian filesystem, data block size 65536, compressed data, compressed metadata, no fragments Filesystem size 31412.76 Kbytes (30.68 Mbytes) 23.25% of uncompressed filesystem size (135115.62 Kbytes) Inode table size 63765 bytes (62.27 Kbytes) 32.46% of uncompressed inode table size (196455 bytes) Directory table size 55988 bytes (54.68 Kbytes) 35.24% of uncompressed directory table size (158895 bytes) Number of duplicate files found 38 Number of inodes 5583 Number of files 3742 Number of symbolic links 831 Number of device nodes 0 Number of fifo nodes 0 Number of socket nodes 0 Number of directories 1010 Number of uids 1 root (0) Number of gids 0 Wrote /centos/5-respin/os/i386/images/minstg2.img (31416k)... Building stage2.img Running mksquashfs /tmp/treedir.4822/instimage /tmp/instimage.img.16060 -all-root -no-fragments Creating little endian 3.0 filesystem on /tmp/instimage.img.16060, block size 65536. Little endian filesystem, data block size 65536, compressed data, compressed metadata, no fragments Filesystem size 85468.17 Kbytes (83.47 Mbytes) 36.42% of uncompressed filesystem size (234681.76 Kbytes) Inode table size 92126 bytes (89.97 Kbytes) 32.88% of uncompressed inode table size (280210 bytes) Directory table size 72823 bytes (71.12 Kbytes) 46.30% of uncompressed directory table size (157287 bytes) Number of duplicate files found 87 Number of inodes 7743 Number of files 4819 Number of symbolic links 2336 Number of device nodes 0 Number of fifo nodes 0 Number of socket nodes 0 Number of directories 588 Number of uids 1 root (0) Number of gids 0 Wrote /centos/5-respin/os/i386/images/stage2.img (85472k) Writing .discinfo file timestamp not specified; using the current time I have four questions: 1) why createrepo is called by buildinstall? Do I need to run createrepo seperately? 2) why buildinstall is still looking for comps.xml in the CentOS/base directory? 3) why is the pkgorder error? 4) why buildinstall is complaining that cannot find modlist and moddeps? Here's the images generated: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.7M 11-20 11:39 boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12M 11-20 11:39 diskboot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31M 11-20 11:40 minstg2.img drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 11-20 11:39 pxeboot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 650 11-20 11:39 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84M 11-20 11:41 stage2.img drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 11-20 11:39 xen The sizes of the images are OK execpt the boot.iso, as the size of the official one is 7M. Thank you!

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mirros - for the record
by David Hrbáč 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi, I have found this solution for mirrors redirecting, SUSE way. I'm sending it for the record, might be useful. http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Redirector David

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grisbi for centos 5?
by Heiko Adams 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, as far as I remember grisbi was already part of centos 4 extras - so I would like to see it in centos 5 extras too. -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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Spec for Func
by Stephen Nelson-Smith 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Attached is my spec for func 0.0.13 for CentOS 4 and 5. I've built both of these today and have them in production. The spec checks as clean with spectool. The key dependency is python-setuptools, which I have in my engineering repository, but is in kb's extras for C4 and in EPEL5 (and probably a candidate to be moved into Centos Extras too). Regards, S.

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Customizing CentOS 5
by Hao Xu 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi! I need to make a customized two cd version CentOS 5, removing rpms not needed and adding some extra packages. I'm familiar with CentOS 4 customizing, but I found that in 5 the directory architecture of the installation tree is a little bit different, e.g. there is no 'base' and 'RPMS' directories in os/arch/CentOS anymore. Is there a howto for customizing CentOS 5? Thanks! hao

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preliminarytimeframe to CentOS 5.1?
by Heiko Adams 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Hello, is it possible to give a preliminary timeframe when users could expect the CentOS 5.1 update? -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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About compile option for i386 of cachefilesd
by DAICON 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

CC:centos-devel@centos.org Hi. Mr. David Howells. About compile option for i386 of cachefilesd. Confirmed environment: 1, On i386 platform OS : CentOS 5 i386 CPU : Pentium M Mem : 2G Kernel : 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 08:32:04 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (Installed by RPM) cachefilesd : cachefilesd-0.7-6 (Installed by RPM) I test cachefilesd (RPM package) on i386 machine, and I found issue. cachefilesd stopped when the file that exceeded 2Gbytes was loaded from NFS Server. This is because compile option "-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" is not set when compiling. When this option is set, it seems to operate normally. You should set this option by default when thinking about the function of cachefilesd. I think. Is there problem in this compile option setting? -- DAICON <daicon(a)daicoon.org>

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kernel panic with cachefilesd and sendmail
by DAICON 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Hi. Kernel panic occurs because of the combination of cachefilesd and sendmail. # # This issue was reported to Linux filesystem caching discussion list <linux-cachefs(a)redhat.com> # Confirmed environment: 1, On i386 platform OS : CentOS 5 i386 CPU : Pentium M Mem : 2G Kernel : 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 08:32:04 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (Installed by RPM) 2, On X86-64 platform OS : CentOS 5 X86-64 CPU : Opteron (Dual Core) Mem : 16G Kernel : 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 08:32:28 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Installed by RPM) How To reproduce: 1, Stor OS image to NFS Server. I used CentOS 5. # mkdir /mnt/nfs # mount -t nfs -o fsc 192.168.1.1:/your/export/dir /mnt/nfs # mkdir /mnt/nfs/centos5 # rsync -axv / /mnt/nfs/centos5 2, Launch sendmail. # /etc/init.d/sendmail stop <- if running # /etc/init.d/cachefilesd start <- if not running # cd /mnt/nfs/centos5 # chroot . # /etc/init.d/sendmail start # exit <- exit from chroot 3, Connect to sendmail, and occur kernel panic. # telnet localhost smtp Kernel dumps thi message, and perfectly freeze. (This kernel message is x86-64 platform.) ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] --------- Kernel BUG at fs/nfs/fscache.h:267 invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP last sysfs file: /class/net/sit0/address CPU 0 Modules linked in: ipv6 nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc cachefiles fscache dm_mirror dm_mod video sbs i2c_ec i2c_core button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport ide_cd shpchp k8_edac tg3 serio_d Pid: 2402, comm: sendmail Not tainted 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff882eabc8>] [<ffffffff882eabc8>] :nfs:nfs_fscache_release_page+0x1e/0x5e RSP: 0018:ffff81023362bc98 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff81023476e308 RBX: ffff810008b4da78 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff81023362bc68 RDI: ffff810008b4da78 RBP: ffff81023476e1f8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff810233a51298 R11: ffffffff882eac08 R12: ffff81023476e308 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff FS: 00002aaaada80a80(0000) GS:ffffffff8038a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 000055556fb72d98 CR3: 0000000235244000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process sendmail (pid: 2402, threadinfo ffff81023362a000, task ffff81023fbc90c0) Stack: 0000000000000000 ffff810008b4da78 0000000000000000 ffffffff882eac45 0000000000000000 ffff810008b4da78 0000000000000000 ffffffff800bcd28 000000003362bd18 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff882eac45>] :nfs:nfs_release_page+0x3d/0x4d [<ffffffff800bcd28>] invalidate_inode_pages2_range+0x122/0x21a [<ffffffff882f435c>] :nfs:nfs_sync_inode_wait+0x116/0x1db [<ffffffff882ed337>] :nfs:nfs_revalidate_mapping+0xac/0x1b4 [<ffffffff882eb2ee>] :nfs:nfs_file_read+0x45/0x97 [<ffffffff8000c8f8>] do_sync_read+0xc7/0x104 [<ffffffff800645d8>] do_page_fault+0x4eb/0x81d [<ffffffff8009b666>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff8000b212>] vfs_read+0xcb/0x171 [<ffffffff80012dbe>] sys_pread64+0x50/0x70 [<ffffffff8005be1d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [<ffffffff8005b14e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Code: 0f 0b 68 4a c2 30 88 c2 0b 01 8b 03 f6 c4 01 74 0d be 08 00 RIP [<ffffffff882eabc8>] :nfs:nfs_fscache_release_page+0x1e/0x5e RSP <ffff81023362bc98> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Nov 1 12:07:17 -- DAICON <daicon(a)daicoon.org>

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CentOS5 PPC
by Baird, Josh 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Is there an update on the CentOS 5 PPC tree? I know that one is being actively worked on, but I haven't heard about the progress in quite some time. Thanks!

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RHSA-2007:1020
by Karanbir Singh 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

humm.. <issue> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1020.html release tags indicate it was built against 5.1, something we have not seen as yet.... </issue> Options: 1) We build it with what we have at the moment, 5.0 + Updates 2) We wait for 5.1 before building it ( Note: it _is_ a security issue... so keep this in mind ) 3) We build it now against 5.0 and Tag it accordingly, and then rebuild it when 5.1 is out and then change Tag to 5_1. It will be a different RPM and would involve most uses doing two updates. Opinions ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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