devel November 2008

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forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hi, Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises the main issue ( s/w ). We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb. They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin CentOS-DS / openldap based backend. So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list ) - phpBB - SMF - Fudforum - phorum - fluxbb Requirements: - Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs ) - Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in writing the ldap-auth portion ) - Must address the specific requirements raised by the present www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? ) - Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good ) - Secure - Skin'able Nice to have: - Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment - responsive community :D Things we will need to do: - Decide on what s/w to use. - Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted. - Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is a language too :D ). - Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w - setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org Actions: Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server, once that is online we will then start by installing into our test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them. If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in. I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to track progress. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Red Hat IPA
by Joe Royall 27 May '09

27 May '09

Red Hat recentely released thier IPA server as open source. Is Centos considering a rebuild? -- Joe Royall

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CentOS Directory Server (CDS) and more is available for testing
by Jason Cox 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Tim Verhoeven wrote: > I'm happy to announce the availability of the CentOS Directory Server > (CDS) for testing. The exact details on how to install it can be found > on this wiki page : Any updates on when we will see this ready for production use? I would like to get away from our current way of providing server authentication and implement CDS. I pretty much have the tools written to use CDS now, but I can not move forward untill it is out of a "testing" status in my environment. --- Jason Cox

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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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Extras Packages Proposal
by Jean-Marc LIGER 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

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Apache modules C4,5 repos
by David Hrbáč 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

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using GIT as VCS for packaging rpms
by Karanbir Singh 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

While there are quite a few people using central VCS's like svn and cvs for hosting packaging repo's and building from them using automated tools - is anyone away of a decentralised setup using either Hg or Git ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Re: Updated xfs-kmod?
by James Pearson 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Eric Sandeen wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> I notice that there is a more recent 'test' xfs-kmod for CentOS5/RHEL5 at: >> >> <http://sandeen.net/rhel5_xfs/xfs-kmod-0.5-2.2.6.18_88.el5.testing.src.rpm> >> >> It looks like this is based on XFS code from the 2.6.25 kernel >> >> The SRPM has been there for 6 months, so I was wondering how much >> testing has been done with the code and CentOS5/RHEL5 ? >> >> Thanks >> >> James Pearson > > You probably don't actually want to use that kmod... it is a very rough > backport, and it's not complete and has a few errors, I believe. I > should probably take it down. > > If you sit tight for a while, (less than the 6 months or so mentioned > above I hope), I may be able to point to a better tested, updated kmod. Thanks James

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Centos 5 update breaks drbd
by Jerry Amundson 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

What needs to be done to keep update from breaking kmod packages when the kernel is updated? This happens more often that not, and is a PIA on production boxes. I've added a comment to http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3186 - there may be others... thx, jerry -- There's plenty of youth in America - it's time we find the "fountain of smart".

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