devel March 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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rhwas 5 work?
by Joe Pruett 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

are there people working on getting the rhwas 5 rpms builtup for centosplus 5? the gophp5 people are starting to have an impact and drupal users are wanting php 5.2, which i was surprised to see in the rhwas srpms directory. the users might even be willing to be testers since they're on a virtual server.

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heads up - centos/testing repos
by Karanbir Singh 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

hi Guys, Over the next couple of days, there is going to be a fair bit of movement in the CentOS-4 and CentOS5 testing repos hosted at dev.centos.org. So if you are running machines with that repo enabled with nightly yum updates, might be a good idea to suspend that for a bit. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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iptables extras
by Tim Verhoeven 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi, Attached is a modifed src rpm of iptables. It is based on base C5 iptables package and source. It just build 2 extra packages : iptables-extras and iptables-ipv6-extras. These extra package contain modules that are not enabled by in the base package but do have support for them in the kernel. I use it for CLUSTERIP support. I would be great if these extra packages could be put in centosplus/extras. Regards, Tim -- 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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Re: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm
by Bent Terp 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

hi! Yes we did indeed get this to work. Mr CentOS himself (aka Johnny Hughes) has kindly compiled and provided kernels with fixes for this bug that Redhat seems quite unwilling to solve, an attitude I do not understand at all. You can find them at <http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/kernel/5/x86_64> with kind regards, Bent Terp ---- Bent Nagstrup Terp Driftsansvarig / Operations Responsible Viasat Satellite Services New Media Work. +46 8 562 024 83 Mobile. +46 736 99 24 83 Fax. +46 8 562 02 330 E-mail. bent.nagstrupterp(a)mtgnewmedia.se Box 17054 SE-104 62 Stockholm Södermälarstrand 43 (Visiting & deliveries) Sweden "In a world without walls and fences, there would be no need for windows and gates" On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Nevin Lyne <nevin(a)enginehosting.com> wrote: > Hi, > > While googling our own problem with this same kernel or > newer but running Redhat Enterprise rather than CentOS, we > are seeing the same really high NFS ops to our Netapp > systems rather than an EMC, we are using very similar NFS > mount options as you listed, but so far Redhat has not > been overly helpful on this, > and kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm - 53.1.14 are > still giving us the same errors/issues. > > Did you ever find a solution, issue, anything about the > cause of this? Any help you might provide would be great! > > Thank you in advance for your time. > > Nevin Lyne > Chief Technology Officer > > -- EngineHosting.com > -- 888-576-HOST / 612-234-8964 >

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Centos 5, Iced Tea and Pentaho
by tom＠wamonline.org.uk 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

As requested, just a quick note to say thanks to the guys who are porting IcedTea, I've managed to get Tomcat and its Pentaho war running fine. Along with the Pentaho Kettle ETL tool. I'm having some issues with Pentaho Report Designer, but tbh it needs a rewrite so its not a great surprise. Cheers Guys and keep up the hard work. Tom

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FastTrack update for liberation-fonts and pygtk2 available
by Heiko Adams 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hello, according to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0071.html and http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0079.html it seems that the upstream vendor has released updated liberation-fonts and pygtk2 packages as fasttrack updates. It would nice to have these packages in CentOS's fasttrack repo too. Regards, -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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Converting a LiveCD iso to pxeboot
by Patrice Guay 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

The latest livecd-tools[1] includes a new tool to convert a LiveCD iso image so that it can be booted over the network using PXELINUX. The way it works is to bundle the complete ISO image inside the initrd. The kernel and (bloated) initrd are downloaded using PXE in the normal way, and the init script finds and loopback-mounts the ISO image and booting continues as normal. This script has been added to the latest livecd-tools release from Fedora and seems compatible with the livecd-tools used to create the CentOS 5.1 LiveCD. [1] https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/browser/trunk/i386/RPMS/livecd-tool… Regards, -- Patrice Guay

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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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2 problems running CentOS 5.1 + kernel-vm in VMware Fusion
by Leonardo Vilela Pinheiro 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hi, Inside VMware Fusion, I've started using: - CentOS 5.1 x86_64 - kernel-vm-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm from http://people.centos.org/~tru/kernel-vm/5/RPMS/x86_64/ - kmod-open-vm-tools-0-0.20080123.2.6.18_53.1.13.el5vm.x86_64.rpm from http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/open-vm-tools/5/x86_64/ Sometimes (most times) I get this error during boot: "The VMware Tools poweron script did not run successfully in this virtual machine - If you have configured a custom poweron script in this virtual machine, please inspect it for errors; otherwise, please submit a support request." A screenshot of this error can be seen in: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2228546/VMware-Fusion-error-running-CentOS-51-ker… I don't know if this error is happening in VMware under Linux or Windows. When I try to suspend the virtual machine (clicking on "Suspend Guest"), I get the error that can be seen in: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2232883/VMware-Fusion-running-CentOS-51-kernelvm-… If I may help debugging something, please tell me what to show you. -- Leonardo

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Modifying CentOS label's.
by Ivan Gonzalez 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hello everyone! Well i want to create my own distribution (base system only 1 cd) based on CentOS 5.1 but i can't find what to do to modify all the text's that say CentOS while anaconda is installing. I fonud this script: http://osdir.com/ml/linux.centos.devel/2006-08/msg00119.html But i don't know the path where it should be running... Is there something like this to personalize my distro or some other tool that can change all CentOS label's?? I really appreciate your help. Hope someone can help me. Ivan. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Dovecot with MySQL support in centosplus
by Lubomir Kundrak 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi, I see there is postfix with mysql support in centosplus. Would it be possible to add dovecot-mysql there? I'd volunteer to maintain it if needed. I guess it can't go to fedora epel, as the package is already part of RHEL. -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)

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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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