devel February 2008

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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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Point yum repos to centos gpg key in /etc/pki/
by Jeff Sheltren 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hi, as a follow up to a conversation in #centos-devel, I'd like to get input from the list on this issue. The question is where to point people, and tools like yum, for the centos gpg key used to verify rpm signatures. My opinion is that pointing to the key in /etc/pki/ which gets installed by the centos- release makes the most sense. This is already installed locally on any centos (-5) machine. See ie. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2419 From a security standpoint, there are issues with either choice. However, if your install media has been compromised, then there would be many other ways to bypass the gpg checks rather than just changing the gpg key from the centos-release package. Pointing to a URL for the gpg key opens up more security issues such as dns poisoning. -Jeff

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QA Coordinator
by Tim Verhoeven 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Hello everyone, As most of you will probably know there was a CentOS developers day last Friday (before the FOSDEM event). One of the things discussed during that day was the need/use for a QA coordinator. I think the best way to describe the job role is that this person should be between the developers and the QA team and make sure that QA testing is efficient and on time (as best as we can get). Also the coordinator is the single point of contact for the developers to talk to the QA team and the other way around. I am the "lucky" person that will try to be this QA coordinator from now on. So I would like to make the following arrangements : Towards the developers. Let me know as soon as possible when there is something in the pipeline that will need to tested by the QA team. The sooner as I know the sooner that I get can the testers mobilized and ready. For the members of the QA team. If you are still interested in testing then make sure you are added to the QA Team page on the wiki (http://wiki.centos.org/QaTeam). During testing document all your findings on the wiki so we can keep track of things. I will try to make a test plan and some sort of schedule on the wiki for each release that needs to go through QA as soon that I'm aware that a release is coming for testing, so everybody knows when there is a need for testing. Alright, that is it for know I think. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, things I forgot, ... Regards, Tim Your friendly neighborhood QA coordinator -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be(a)gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)

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rpmRepo Web Apps Filesystem Directory
by Jean-Marc LIGER 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Dear Sirs, Another disappointing question for me is the desigend Web Apps directory. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard recommends /srv/www but only one of the big, SuSE, uses it. Debian uses /var/www. Mandriva uses both /var/www and /usr/share. Red Hat used /var/www and now /usr/share. CentOS uses /usr/share and RPMForge uses /var/www. So my question is, what will be the future Web Apps directory for rpmRepo ? Be sure, I don't want to annoy anyone, I really want the best for CentOS that we use every day in our production environment. And this Filesystem Web Directory question is poisonning me for a while, when I want to mix up packages, but also to make the good choice for my own ones. Best Regards, Jean-Marc Liger - Sorbonne University Networks

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CentOS 5.1 for ppc / ppc64
by Brandon Davidson 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Range on #centos was nice enough to point me at a message from a few weeks ago which mentioned that PPC/IA64 support is/was going to be announced at Fosdem 08 at the end of the month. I work for a group that has a number of PPC64 machines (JS20/p690/p655/p615) that I would like to get off RHEL 4 and on to CentOS 5, so I've been keeping an eye out for any news on this front. I am interested in helping test/build this release in whatever ways I can. I would be glad to test on whatever machines the developers might find useful, and could designate one or more of our JS20 blades as build hosts if there's need for such a thing. Who should I be talking to about contributing, and how can I best get a hold of them? Thanks, -- Brandon Davidson Systems Administrator Neuroinformatics Center University of Oregon

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missing two updates in csgfs repo...
by Roger Peña 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Hi I am just wonderling if there is some problem getting out the packages: cman-1.0.17-0.el4_6.3.src.rpm fence-1.32.50-2.el4_6.1.src.rpm they where released in 1/feb/08 and 20/dic/07 respectibly according to this page: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4.6.z-cluster-errata.html what it is strange to me is that in each release day they where other packages released that are already in centos csgfs repo. so, is there a problem recompiling or just some how the packages remain hide to the ayes of centos developer? thanks roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified ( CCNA & CCDA ) Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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heads up: CVE-2008-0600 kernel root exploit
by Matthew Miller 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

This has a trivially-available local root exploit code, and is already generating a bit of community panic. I expect we'll be seeing an update RSN. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251> -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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Anaconda improvement for network installs
by Dag Wieers 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, Today I got a nice feature request from an OpenSUSE friend :) When doing a network installation, it could be useful to have a centos-mirror pre-registered into the installation form so that you do not need a second system (or a reboot to your previous OS) to look up what the correct mirror address is. The actual suggestion was to have a pull-down list of mirrors per country, but with our mirror-setup a single entry would most likely do anyway. Plus it keeps the changes to anaconda down to a minimum ! This maybe something that we could take with us for CentOS 5.2 (and 4.7 and a 3.9 respin ?) PS I know I have been in a similar situation in the old RH9 days :) -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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CentOS 5.1 Kernel for i586 (SRPM patch)
by Brian Schueler 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, folks. Building a CentOS-5 Kernel for 586 machines is a quite simple way by enabling i586 in the spec file, adding the kabi information and creating a debug configuration for i586. Glibc and openssl for i586 rebuilds out of the box. Is there a convenient way for CentOS to maintaining i586 for version 5.1+ as it was done on CentOS-4? I have seen already an i586 Kernel for CentOS 5.0 in the plus repository - but I would like to know what problems occurred causing a discontinuing. I've made a patch for the kernel srpm (working on 2.6.18-53.el5 up to 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5) enabling rebuilding for the i586 target. CentOS 5.1 successfully runs on a Pentium 1 (tested: 200 MHz, 64MB RAM). (AMD-K6 should run, too.) The motivation is that some i586 class routers running CentOS-3 which should be replaced with 5. The patch is located at: http://dbl76.tfh-berlin.de/~s18009/c5/special/kernel-2.6.18-xxx.march_i586.… BS

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drbd82 RPMS for testing
by Johnny Hughes 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

All, There are drbd82 RPMS for CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 (i386 and x86_64) for testing here: http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/drbd/ These are designed to be able to live in the same repository as the current STABLE versions. These RPMS are designed as CONFLICTS and not upgrades as there may be some manual actions to upgrade, especially on CentOS-4. Here is an article on the upgrade process: http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to… also this thread about potential upgrade problems: http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-January/008318.html (We have 8.2.4, so should not have this issue ... but just in case). The process will be similar for drbd-8.0.x to drbd82-8.2.x upgrades as well. Please report successful uses of the RPMS (upgrades and new installs) and any problems here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2657 Here is a post to the DRBD mailing list for reference as well: http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-February/008473.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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RHAS
by Laurent Wandrebeck 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi, I've just begun to compile some src.rpm from Red Hat Application Stack. For now, Postgresql 8.2.6 and apache 2.2.4 for x86_64 are available. Mysql 5.0.44 failed for now. I'll try to continue some work on RHAS. If some of you are willing to test these, see http://dl.kodros.fr Regards, Laurent

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CentOS-QA mailing list
by Brandon Davidson 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Per Lance's post about a year ago, I'm writing to request access to the centos-qa mailing list. Without archives access it's hard to tell if this list is still active now that CentOS 5 is out of beta, but if so I'd like to help test the ppc64 release... as soon as Karanbir is back from vacation :) I have access to about a dozen ppc64 platforms of various age. No Power5 unfortunately, but pretty much everything before that from Power3 to PPC970. I have 6 years of documented Linux systems administration experience, with another 10 or so before that of incubational fiddling. I'm fluent in Perl, and passable enough with C to patch and debug code as necessary. Thanks, -- Brandon Davidson Systems Administrator Neuroinformatics Center University of Oregon

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Centos 5.1 on S390 and s390x
by Philip Pinto 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi, I was wondering if there has been any interest in continuing the port of Centos to the s390 and s390x forward to version 5.1 of the Centos project. I would be willing to contribute to the project financially or by managing a special interest group for this purpose. But if there has really been no interest beyond my own on this probably can't happen by myself. Currently I use Centos 4.6 on s390x for a sandbox environment for my consulting business and it a proven to be an invaluable tool for this purpose. I do have a hardware environment and bandwidth that would allow development to proceed. Phil Pinto pinto(a)dpcomputersolutions.com DP Computer Solutions PO Box 1385 Albany, NY 12010 917-841-0422

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