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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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CentOS Forums again
by Tim Verhoeven 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hello everyone, Having some time to do stuff for CentOS here at LinuxTag I've also being building FreeIPA packages for CentOS. The idea that this will be core part of a central authentication system. Meaning that you will only need 1 account that you can use to login into the website, forum, wiki, bugtracker, systems, ... IMHO the most important system that needs to be attached to the central auth database are the forums. There are a lot of users there (and a lot of content). So I was thinking, why not fix 2 things at the same time. Migrate from the old forum to the new forum that is linked to the central auth system. And then later on couple the other existing apps to it. My feeling is that the most productive way to get forward with the website/forum update is to split the forum from the website. In my experience the forum present in CMS tools aren't made for the amount of traffic we are having. So something dedicated sound like a better option. So I have been looking around for open source forum software that link to ldap without to much effort. I've looked at 3 projects (Phorum, phpBB and SMF). They all 3 are good looking, well featured and maintained. Though, only phpBB has a decent built-in LDAP integration (FreeIPA is built on top of LDAP). So my proposal is to setup a FreeIPA instance, link it with phpBB and try to migrate a part of the current forums and see how all that works. And if it looks good migrate to that. So what do people think, did I miss stuff, other suggestions, ... 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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CentOS Directory Server (CDS) and more is available for testing
by Tim Verhoeven 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hello, 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 : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DirectoryServerSetup Besides functional testing of CDS it would also be great if you could watch out for errors in the rebranding (meaning the use of upstream's name and/or logo). Any issues you encounter are to be reported here, but you can also come to the #centos-qa IRC on freenode for support. Also the documentation for CDS can be found on our website at http://www.centos.org/docs/5/. Besides CDS there are other things in the testing repo on dev.centos.org that could use some testing. These include the openjdk 1.6 java version, the vm kernels (tuned for use inside VMWare etc) and a newer version of mysql. We are also looking for feedback on those things so we can move stuff to CentOS Extras or CentOS Plus. Happy testing, 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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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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New QA / Testing potential
by Karanbir Singh 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Since there are quite a few people offering to help test apps /packages in CentOS - I am wondering if now is a good time to organise the CentOS-Testing repository and process a bit more. There are a *lot* of things that need looking at and pushing into the production repo's however a lack of testing feedback means they dont. Does anyone want to take this up ? I can hammer together some ideas into a wiki page, but dont have the time to really follow the process up or to organise it on a ongoing basis. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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5.2 Dates
by Karanbir Singh 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

ok, so I put some dates up at http://wiki.centos.org/KaranbirSingh/5.2 Essentially, 25th is the last date that I am still looking at backlog and mod's etc. After that its basically just all builders go, get the packages into the -qa target. Once that is done - install media. this plan gives the -qa guys 6 days to look at stuff. Which should be enough ? - KB

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GFS Update for CentOS 3 kernel 2.4.21-57.EL
by Tru Huynh 30 May '08

30 May '08

Thanks to John Newbigin the new GFS packages for the 2.4.21-57.EL kernel are now available. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0259.html i386: csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-6.0.2.36-8.i386.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-8.i386.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-8.i386.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-6.0.2.36-8.i686.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-8.i686.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-8.i686.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-modules-hugemem-6.0.2.36-8.i686.rpm csgfs/i386/RPMS/GFS-modules-smp-6.0.2.36-8.i686.rpm Best regards, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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GFS Update for CentOS 3 kernel 2.4.21-57.EL
by John Newbigin 30 May '08

30 May '08

(I am sending this message again with the correct subject). New GFS packages for the 2.4.21-57.EL kernel are ready. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0259.html http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/GFS-6.0.2.36-8.i386.rpm http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-8.i386.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-8.i38… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-6.0.2.36-8.i686.rpm http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-8.i686.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-8.i68… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-modules-hugemem-6.0.2.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i686/GFS-modules-smp-6.0.2.36-8… These packages are signed with my jnewbigin-csgfs(a)ict.swin.edu.au key. They need to be resigned with the CentOS-3 key and published to the csgfs repo. If you could let me know once you have download the packages it would be good. These are hosted by a virtual machine which may not always be turned on. I'll make sure it stays on until you have got a copy. Thanks John. -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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GFS Update for CentOS 3 kernel 2.4.21-52.EL
by John Newbigin 30 May '08

30 May '08

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buildsys-build SRPM/spec file
by Paul B Schroeder 30 May '08

30 May '08

Hello all.. I see the RPM for buildsys-build here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/buildsys/5/ But where can I find the source? Thanks...Paul...

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Help with 5.2
by William Boyle 29 May '08

29 May '08

I am currently using CentOS 5.1 on my dual quad-core E5450 workstation and am willing to test 5.2 on this system. I even have a swappable boot/system drive that I can put it on so I can revert to 5.1 as necessary simply by swapping out the drive. William Boyle Application Frameworks and Systems, Inc.

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modern-CentOS's LoginScreen and Wallpaper
by Alain Reguera Delgado 29 May '08

29 May '08

Developers, Could you check the following LoginScreen and Wallpaper ? What do you think ? LoginScreen: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/LoginScreen?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=… Wallpaper: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wallpapers?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=m… Note: In the LoginScreen we need to update its screenshot.png file. Could someone help on that ? Thanks, al.

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Volunteering for CentOS
by Jordan Evans 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hello I recently saw a blog that gave me the idea to volunteer for CentOS http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2008/05/centos-52.html and I was wondering if the CentOS community had any work that I could help with. I could help with testing and recompiling the packages, but I'm open to any suggestions and if you have any work you need help with thats within my abilities, I -- Ubuntu, an African word meaning Slackware is too hard for me

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CentOS 5.2
by Oliver Peter 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi, I read Tim's post on planet.centos.org regarding the upcoming 5.2 release. I know how to compile 'things' and speak German and English. If you think my help could be useful in the release process please do not hesitate to contact me. Bye O. -- Oliver PETER, email: hoschi(a)mouhaha.de, ICQ# 113969174 "Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave."

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CentOS 5.2 todo list
by Tim Verhoeven 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hi, There are a couple of things mentioned during the release of 5.1 that would be nice if they could be integrated into 5.2. These are (in random order) : - Update the content of the slides (and translate them) I don't remember what exactly people would like to have changed or who it was that mentioned it. But anyway, the time is now if we would like the slides updated. So speak up :-) - Add the updates repo (in the same list as the extra repo) By default at the Updates repo to the Anaconda installer like it currently is for the Extras repo. So people that have a internet connection during install can have updated packages already installed. - Provide a CentOS png to be displayed on the top of the cube (bug #2633) When using compiz make sure there is a CentOS logo on the 3D cube when changing desktops. So the question then is, do we like to do these and if so who is going to do them ? Volunteers speak up :-) 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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Returned mail: User unknown
by postoffice＠mailhub.owlriver.net 25 May '08

25 May '08

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Dear centos-devel@centos.org May 89% 0FF
by VIAGRA � Official Site 24 May '08

24 May '08

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CentOS mailing list for job offers
by Ralph Angenendt 23 May '08

23 May '08

Developers, developers, developers ... We had a short discussion about "How to offer jobs / How to search for people who know CentOS" within the existing CentOS infrastructure. We dismissed the idea of putting a "Jobs forum" at <http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/>, neither did we want a section on the web site which would have to be cared about by some sort of editorial staff. (Note: We can still discuss about that) What we thought about is a CentOS-jobs mailing list to which you can send a mail when you want to offer a job in which CentOS plays a role. Some (rather unsorted) thoughts which came up: - Do we also want people to be able to search for jobs (my opinion: No) - should that list be moderated (my opinion: Yes - by maybe more than one person) - Which standards do we need for a job to be posted there? That helps weeding out some "get criminal quick" schemes or other snowball schemes. - Do we want an unmoderated discussion list besides that for discussing about job offers - like on Usenet (my opinion: No, that really is a way for quick and lasting flame fests) And the biggest questions: Do we need that all? Do you have another vision of how we can do those job offerings within our infrastructure? Do you have experiences with stuff like that? Do *you* want to moderate that list (or at least help with that)? Discuss. I'd be particularly interested in the standards for job offerings. Cheers, Ralph

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Re: [CentOS-devel] modern-CentOS as a project ?
by Ralph Angenendt 17 May '08

17 May '08

Daniel de Kok wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos(a)br-online.de> wrote: > > That was *why* I CCed Gideon, as I didn't want to ask Alain if he wanted > > to take the lead while your brother "officially" had that before. > > I finally got a hold of him wrt this subject, and he is ok with > passing on the hat. It suits him more to toss in artwork when he has > time, but his schedule does not allow him to actively lead this. Lucky you. So Alain - do you want to take the lead in the Artwork SIG? We then could do an announcement on centos-devel/user, create a project on projects.centos.org and maybe create a mailing list for that. http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Artwork - there already is a page on the wiki for that. Do you want something added to that before the announcement (except exchange Gideon and you)? Cheers, Ralph

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yum repo fles not being updated.
by Rabie Van der Merwe 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best list to drop this into, but it seems as if the yum repo's files have not been updated since May 09, other files are making there way into the mirrors. I tried running an 'yum update' expecting to update to 'xen-3.0.3-41.el5_1.5.x86_64.rpm' however nothing happened, on doing a 'yum list | grep xen' it's also not listed, but if I check the mirror I am using the file is there. I then check the timestamp on repodata/ files: lftp ftp.is.co.za:/mirror/centos/5.1/updates/x86_64/repodata> ls -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1602429 May 09 09:48 filelists.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 6172007 May 09 09:48 other.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 282716 May 09 09:48 primary.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 951 May 09 09:48 repomd.xml I checked some of the other mirrors around and the same thing. Regards Rabie van der Merwe Infrastructure Architect ********************************************************************** --------- NOTICE --------- This message (including attachments) contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from any computer. Metropolitan Health Group, its subsidiaries or associates, does not accept liability for any personal views expressed in this message. Metropolitan Health Group PO Box 4313 Cape Town 8000 Tel: (021) 480 4511 Fax: (021) 480 4535 www.mhg.co.za **********************************************************************

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Provide thunderbird-1.5 dictionaries in a repo?
by Niels de Vos 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hello, CentOS-5 comes with thunderbird-1.5 Unfortunately the dictionaries from the Thunderbird Add-ons are only for tb-2.0a and newer. Well, at least the German dictionaries. It seems that installing a dictionary needs only two files in /usr/lib64/thunderbird-1.5.0.12/components/myspell. I think this would not be difficult to package in an RPM. Is there any interest in providing RPMs with different dictionaries? Any thoughts? Niels

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JetDirect Webinterface doesn't work anymore with OpenJDK Java 1.6
by Heiko Adams 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hello, after installing the openjdk 1.6 packages from centos testing the webinterface of my hp jetdirect 300x printserver doesn't work anymore. The webpage is loaded but the applets don't start - no java console and no error messages are shown. Tested with Firefox 3 Beta 5 and Opera 9.5 Beta 2 Can anyone confirm this? -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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Re: [kvm-devel] [CentOS-devel] KVM-66 packages in testing
by Farkas Levente 13 May '08

13 May '08

Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> mandrake 9, 10 and winxp run but neither centos-5.1 i386 nor x86_64 >> are boot:-( i386 give a kernel panic x86_64 simple hang during boot. >> > > Can you post the panic? > > It's probably the 3Dnow! bug which is fixed for kvm-69. unfortunately i can't reproduce the kernel crash, now it's usually hang at "starting udev" both centos-5.1 i386 and x86_64. anyway i build kvm-68 and it's working. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Package submission: squeeze
by Heiko Adams 11 May '08

11 May '08

Hello, I'd like to submit the squeeze-package to the centos repo. Description: Squeeze is a modern and advanced archive manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Its design adheres to the Xfce philosophy, which basically means Squeeze is designed to be both fast and easy to use. Download: http://download.ha-software.de/squeeze-0.2.3-1.src.rpm Regards, -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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Package submission: thunar-thumbnailer
by Heiko Adams 11 May '08

11 May '08

Hello, I'd like to submit the thunar-thumbnailer-package to the centos repo. Description: Thunar uses external utilities - so called thumbnailers - to generate previews of certain files. Thunar ships with thumbnailers to generate previews of image and font files and can automatically use available GNOME thumbnailers if it was build with support for gconf. However, even then, there are several file types for which no thumbnailer exists. The thunar-thumbnailers project provides additional thumbnailers for Thunar, that also cover less common file formats. Download: http://download.ha-software.de/thunar-thumbnailers-0.3.2-1.src.rpm Regards -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com>

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Backuppc 3.1.0
by Marco 09 May '08

09 May '08

Hi all, i was looking for a backup system for small mixed environment (linux and windows) to install on a centos 5.1 server and a tryed to use backuppc 3.1.0 from the testing repository, mainly becouse I have already succesfully used it in the past on a fedora server and because it perfectly matches my requirements. This is my expirience: Before starting I carefully read this useful documents: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2403 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1299 http://marc.info/?l=centos-devel&m=117145576710647&w=2 The first installation worked fine: I configured the repository in yum and I succesfully downloaded and installed backuppc and all the dependecies. I configured apache to run as backuppc user instead of apache and the server started working. The server on wich i'm running backuppc is a general purpose server and it's not dedicated to the backup job, so for me is a big issue running apache as the backuppc user. Studying the above mentioned documentation I solved the issue by this way: 1) I downloaded the SRPMS version of backuppc 2) I manually applied the modification suggested by ScratchMonkey to the spec file (the diff file proposed on the bug tracker didn't work out of the box becouse it refers to a previus version of backuppc, but I was easily able to manually apply the modification). 3) I recompiled the RPM and I succesfully installed it. 4) I configured apache to work in suexec mode (using the sample conf file published on the bug tracker). The server is now working fine and I havan't any performance issue on the web intrface (but i have very few clients). My suggestion is to use the suexec mode which I find very easy to implement and without collateral effect on other web application published from the same apache server. I hope this will help. Marco Tante idee per la salvaguardia del nostro Pianeta su Yahoo! For Good http://it.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html

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Can I use newest anaconda in customized CentOS5?
by Ruomu Hu 09 May '08

09 May '08

Hi! Can I use the newest anaconda (e.g. 11.4.0.78-1) in my customized CentOS5? Will it work fine with CentOS5's kernel rpms, paths of configuration files, names of related rpms(redhat-logo, etc), etc? Will there be any problems? Thanks! Ruomu

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KVM-66 packages in testing
by Daniel de Kok 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi all, We have just added KVM-66 packages to the CentOS 5 testing repository. This version of the Kernel Virtual Machine has numerous improvements over KVM-36, which is currently in CentOS-Extras. One of the notable new features is support for paravirtualized block and network devices through the virtio architecture[1]. Currently, only Linux kernel 2.6.25 provides paravirtualized block and NIC drivers. A paravirtualized NIC driver is available for Windows[2]. We'd like to hear from current KVM users whether this version has any regressions for their applications compared to KVM-36. Of course, we are interested in other bug reports as well! Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the CentOS Wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories The KVM module package is named 'kmod-kvm', and has a dependency on the userland KVM tool. So, the following command should do the trick, and pull in all required dependencies: yum --enablerepo=c5-testing install kmod-kvm Thanks, Daniel [1] http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Virtio?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=… [2] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599&package_id=267…

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qemu 0.9.1
by Daniel de Kok 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi all, qemu 0.9.1 packages are now provided through the CentOS 5 testing repository. qemu is mainly provided for the qemu-img tool, but in the future we may also add kqemu. We'd like to hear if qemu-img is working ok for everybody. We can focus on testing qemu itself once kqemu is packaged. Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the CentOS Wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories The qemu package is named (surprise :)) 'qemu', and can be installed after adding the testing repository: yum --enablerepo=c5-testing install qemu Thanks, Daniel

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Wrong directory in CentOS5-respin
by Ruomu Hu 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, I often need to install CentOS5 on servers, I do this a lot, so I think I need a respin dist (all updates included). I wrote a script to generate my CentOS5-respin. My CentOS5 tree is at /centos/5, it is rsynced with a Taiwan mirror daily. My generated CentOS5 tree is placed at /centos/5-respin. The generation of CentOS5-respin by my script runs fine, but the generated CentOS5-respin tree has a problem: During network installation using this CentOS5-respin tree, when it gets rpm installation, it always complains "The file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm cannot be opened.". In the text console, the error message is "Failed to get http://myserver/centos/5-respin/os/x86_64/system-config-services-0.9.4-1.el…". Anaconda should look for rpms in /centos/5-respin/os/x86_64/CentOS, but it actually looks for rpms in /centos/5-respin/os/x86_64. Any ideas? It would be nice if anyone could point me to some useful docs. Thanks! Ruomu P.S. Here's my script: #!/bin/bash # # gen_respin_distro # # To use this script, the following rpms need to installed first: # anaconda # anaconda-help # anaconda-runtime # busybox-anaconda ? # bogl # booty # netpbm # netpbm-progs # mkisofs #TODO # 1. Should we use pkgorder? If yes, when? # 2. Do we need to run pkgorder before buildinstall? # 3. Do we need to run createrepo? Buildinstall seems to calls it. # 4. Why does it look for rpms in /centos/5-respin/os/x86_64? # Check tools rpmmerge=`dirname "$0"`/rpmmerge if [ ! -x "$rpmmerge" ]; then echo "$rpmmerge does not exist or is not executable." >&2 exit 1 fi createrepo="/usr/bin/createrepo" if [ ! -x "$createrepo" ]; then echo "$createrepo does not exist or is not executable." >&2 exit 1 fi buildinstall="/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall" if [ ! -x "$buildinstall" ]; then echo "$buildinstall does not exist or is not executable." >&2 exit 1 fi # Set variables and functions src="/centos/5" dest="/centos/5-respin" distro="CentOS" arch="x86_64" version="5" product="CentOS" release="Respin" prodpath="CentOS" eval_retval() { test $? -ne 0 && exit 1 } # Merge rpms echo -e "*** Merge rpms ***\n" $rpmmerge $src/os/$arch/$distro $src/updates/$arch/RPMS $dest/os/$arch/$distro eval_retval # Create repo data echo -e "\n*** Create repo data ***\n" #cp -al $src/os/$arch/repodata/comps.xml $dest/os/$arch/$distro #eval_retval $createrepo -q -g $src/os/$arch/repodata/comps.xml -c $dest/os/$arch/cache \ -o $dest/os/$arch $dest/os/$arch/$distro eval_retval #rm -f $dest/os/$arch/$distro/comps.xml #eval_retval # Run buildinstall export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/anaconda" echo -e "\n*** Buildinstall ***\n" sudo $buildinstall \ --pkgorder "$dest/os/$arch/pkgorder.txt" \ --version $version \ --product $product \ --release $release \ --prodpath $prodpath \ $dest/os/$arch eval_retval exit 0

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xorg 7.2 on CentOS5
by John Summerfield 02 May '08

02 May '08

Has anyone built xorg 7.2 for C5, or have handy hints on how it might be done? -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)

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