devel May 2008

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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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