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Deploying FEL for Centos/RHEL 5 users on EPEL
by Chitlesh GOORAH 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hello there, This email is cross-posted on: - fedora electronic lab mailing list - fedora epel mailing list - centos devel mailing list - fedora marketing mailing list It describes briefly what FEL and EPEL (if case you don't know) are and my intentions for this deployment. FEL stands for Fedora Electronic Laboratory. The later is about packaging, maintaining and shipping electronic simulation packages for real hardware development. It was initially started with my passion for ASIC design, but now covers various design tools for: * Digital Simulation * VLSI Layout and Verification * RTL and logic synthesis design flows * Circuit Simulation * PCB Layout and Circuit Design * Micro Controller (µC) Programming and Embedded Systems Development http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ Now we are about roughly 8 contributors. It is already more than 2 years since the early bits of FEL were introduced to Fedora repositories. Many other Fedora packagers and Fedora-Arm SIG have contributed a lot this success as well. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM Packaging is good, but is not enough. One of the main goals is to act as CAD/EDA engineers and bring open source hardware design tools to a meaningful usage and ensure interoperability within the design flows. We are thriving for interoperability, because without this, design tools are useless and even if its open source. Most of these packages have not yet been packaged for any other distributions. More specific details on the blog posts. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/ Building a community and do marketing around FEL is also another of our priorities and a _hard_ task. Knowledge in electronics is advised and recommended :) I have received a lot of suggestions to deploy FEL on EPEL repositories so that Centos and RHEL users can use them on a longer basis. As many universities around the world have deployed enterprise-class Linux distributions such as Centos and RHEL, I believe users, lecturers and designers can largely benefit from the EPEL repositories. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL http://www.centos.org/ I have no idea whether Scientific Linux can take advantage of these intentions or not. If you do, let me know. In the past and even till now, I had very good experiences with Centos contributors. With some of the Centos contributors, we (fedora) even shared booths and devrooms in Belgium and Germany. If ever a Centos packager is already packaging any electronic simulation packages, please send us a mail in our brand new mailing list. We looking forward to hear from you. We'll be glad if we can work together. I'm focussing on EPEL 5. As I'm writing, only %1 of the work for building FEL packages for EPEL repositories has been done. Thus during the Fedora 11 development cycle, most of the work will be carried out and dependencies solve, at least mine. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/chitlesh Nevertheless, some new tools will find their way to FEL very soon, e.g: verilator. The packages that I or any FEL contributor will push to EPEL repositories will not be as cutting-edge as they will on supported Fedora repositories. In the upcoming months, which I'm waiting for which desperately, we will see more mixed-level simulation support on the FEL platform. Now, FEL 10 will be out soon at the end of this month as a LiveDVD and packages are yum-able from fedora's repositories. Your suggestions and critics are welcome. We are only a small group of contributors who are working on a very specific application, "hardware design tools" and making their upstream benefit from the open source eco system. FEL has a lot of success since its official F8 release, and we are keen to keep that going and extend our umbrella. thanks and kind regards, Chitlesh GOORAH

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Latest CentOS 5 httpd update version number
by Mike Zanker 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

I wasn't entirely sure where to ask about this, so apologies if I've picked the wrong list. An updated httpd RPM for CentOS 5 was released yesterday but none of my machines are seeing it. I'm wondering whether it has something to do with the version number because the upstream updated RPM is httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_2.4 whereas the CentOS RPM is httpd-2.2.3-11.el5.centos.4 The httpd that it should be replacing is httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3 so shouldn't the new one be httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_2.centos.4 ? Thanks, -- Mike Zanker

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trac update for projects.centos.org
by Karanbir Singh 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

hi, On Wed, the 12th Nov I'll be doing a Trac update on projects.centos.org sites. Hope to bring the ver upto 0.11.2, if anyone has known-issues with running 0.11.2 on c5, do let me know :D -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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CentOS Plus kernels?
by Gernot Stocker 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hello All, I know this might be a nasty question but is there a special reason why there are no up-to-date kernel packages in the centosplus repository? I know, that I can compile it on my own but getting a compiled ne from you seems for all to be the best way of updating kernel. Anyway thank you for your great job you do all the time! Cheers, GS

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CentOS 5 ServerCD ?
by Dag Wieers 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi, I have been asked a few times about a CentOS 5 ServerCD. Is something like this planned or simply impossible ? (Was reminded by this comment on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/304730/) -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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Artwork for browser default page (update)
by Alain Reguera Delgado 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi again :) Here is another customization, this time for the browser default page: https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/wiki/Misc/BrowserDefaultPage Cheers, al.

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still waiting for rhwas 5 mysql rpm
by Joe Pruett 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

i don't see it in the c5-testing repo. is is built yet? should i be looking somewhere else?

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Artwork for download and personal pages
by Alain Reguera Delgado 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi Guys, Here we have a customization for download and personal pages: https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/wiki/Misc/WebServerCustomization What do you think ? Cheers, al.

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Virtual Machines for testing of forums
by Ralph Angenendt 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Moin, we have set up two virtual machines at the moment for forum testing, one for php-bb and one for flux-bb. Both machines have a basic LAMP setup. So whoever wants to do some testing for those: Please drop me a mail and you'll get back the password and ip address for that machine. As a bonus you'll also get the ldapmanager password (see LDAP section of <http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums>) and the location of your user and groups tree in LDAP. If there is someone who wants to test a different forum software, please raise your hand now (Requirements for the software can also be found on <http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums>). Cheers, Ralph

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Isolinux.cfg + multiple ks.cfg problem
by Richard J 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi, I am working on to add two installation options in the isolinux.cfg file. The options are: 1) To automatically install centos (including partitioning the HDD) 2) Manual installation and disk partition For that I used different ks.cfg files: 1) auto.ks.cfg - For automatic installation 2) ks.cfg - for manual installation To select the installation option I edited the isolinux.cfg file as follows: ################################################################ default linux prompt 1 timeout 600 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 options.msg F3 general.msg F4 param.msg F5 rescue.msg F7 snake.msg label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img text ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/auto.ks.cfg nousb nopcmcia label text kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img text ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg nousb nopcmcia ################################################################ But the problem is when I write "linux text" it starts the 'Automatic' installation. When I done write anything and pressed Enter then also automatic installation starts. Although when i typed 'text' and pressed Enter then 'Manual' installation started. My question is: in the default linux distro when 'linux text' is entered then the installation starts in the text mode else in the graphical mode. I also need to make a similar setup for 'automatic' and 'manual' installation. Can anyone help me out in this matter. Help is much appreciated. :-) Thanks, Richard

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