devel September 2007

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19 discussions

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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centos build environment.
by Gregory Machin 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hi I was told by a friend that the Centos project made it's build environment available. How true is this and if it is where do I find it ? Thanks Gregory Machin

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What happend to the yum group "Clustering"
by Stefan Held 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Is it not available anymore? I can't see it through the yum grouplist command. Anything special why the group was removed in silence? -- Stefan Held VI has only 2 Modes: obi unixkiste org The first one is for beeping all the time, FreeNode: foo_bar the second destroys the text. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- perl -e'map{print pack c,($|++?1:13)+ord,select$,,$,,$,,$|}split//,ESEL.$/' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG-Keyprint = 75C0 F029 CA71 F061 6C07 0640 38F7 E5F9 4EA5 A385

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where are the debuginfo rpms?
by Farkas Levente 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

hi, where can i find debuginfo rpms for updates? eg: kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Package requests
by Heiko Adams 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hello, any chance to have xpdf and seamonkey packages in centos extra? Regards, Heiko

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Sun kit available in London
by Karanbir Singh 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

hi Guys, There is some Sun Kit ( a few Netra t105 and a couple of E450s ) that might get donated to the Project, if we can find the use for them. I need to get back to the potential donors within this week and let them know. Would anyone be interested in these machines ? They will be available in London - so you need to either organise local hosting yourself or pickup / arrange for pickup from my place. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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KDE light?
by Niki Kovacs 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi, Allow me to shortly introduce myself, since I'm new to this list. I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat (South France). I'm in charge of computers (servers and desktops) in eleven small communities that migrate from Windows to Linux. Institutions like public libraries and town halls get networked, and every Windows installation is replaced by a GNU/Linux system. I had tested various (a dozen or so) distributions, and we finally settled with CentOS (both server and desktop), which we like very much. The current desktop we use is the default GNOME, and XFCE on older hardware. From time to time, I fiddle with the KDE desktop, and my impression is always the same: 1) it's great! 2) it's cluttered! KDE has a series of really great apps (Konqueror file manager, K3B, KMail, ...), but the problem is: it's not very modular. More often than not, one has to install a whole bunch of useless - and often redundant - apps in order to just have one little app. For example, in order to have the music player JuK, I would have to install kdemultimedia-extras, which gives me a whole lot of other players I will never use. I know I'm not the first to complain about this state of things, and various distributions have already taken steps to find a solution. Debian has broken up KDE packages, so you can install just the packages you want. Arch Linux has the kdemod project, which is great also. Gentoo does something similar, IIRC. And there's a german Slackware-based distribution called Pocket Linux which does just that: take the cholesterol out of KDE. So I just thought I would drop a note on the -devel list: to suggest a "KDE Light" project for CentOS. Ideally, I would have a minimal system and X11, and a simple 'yum groupinstall 'KDE Light'' would give me a minimal KDE desktop. I'm curious to have your opinions about this. Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Old kernel dependency for cluster suite
by Sebastian Walter 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear list, I'm trying to install the CentOS 4 Update 5 Cluster Suite including GFS. When I install the kernel modules cman, dlm, gnbd and GFS from the csgfs yum repository, I get the message that I need to downgrade to kernel 2.6.9-55.EL. As this kernel has problems with dlm I want to stay with my present kernel 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL (the problems only appear on very heavy load on GFS). Is it normal to only be able to run Cluster Suite on this (older) kernel? Is it the same regarding RedHat systems? Thanks for any answer! Regards, Sebastian

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Areca RAID drivers
by Phil Schaffner 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

I have a CentOS-4 server with an Areca RAID that I would like to update to CentOS-5. Have been building my own CentOS-4 RPMS based on bodgit-n-scarper SRPM, but that is a kludge of a spec file that needs to be hand-edited and rebuilt for each kernel. http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/download/centos4/SRPMS//kernel-module-arcms… Google found various interesting things for CentOS/EL-5: http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/26/p168 http://faq.areca.com.tw/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=303 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1958 http://www.ehoeve.com/Centos5-Experimental/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testin… Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. The only src.rpm I could turn up was the last link above, and I did get CentOS-5 x86_64 kmod-style drivers to build from that one. Found other indications that these drivers MIGHT be in the standard 5.1 kernel. Before I proceed with a roll-your-own approach again, I would like to inquire about the possibility of CentOS support for Areca RAID. Will Extras or Plus kernel support be forthcoming? Should I hold off for 5.1? Thanks, Phil

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Release farkage potential
by Karanbir Singh 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Does anyone have a clue as to what upstream are likely to be doing w.r.t the sub-release in a release situation ? As in, will there be a 5.0.1 and 5.1.0 ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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