July 2008 - devel - lists.centos.org

anaconda dependency calculation?
by Nicholas Byrne 04 Aug '25

04 Aug '25

Hi all, I'm trying to find a tool that calculates all dependencies for a specific package or group of packages for use with CentOS 5 (beta) with the intention of putting together a custom single CD build of CentOS 5. With CentOS 4 i used a python script that used the hdrlist module to find all dependencies which borrowed code from a number of sources. I've looked at yumdownloader and how it checks dependencies (using the --resolve option) but if i pass it the list of packages defined in say the Base and the Core yum groups which generally form an absolute minimal install i end up with about 200 packages. If i do a custom install (using beta 1 disks) and deselect everything i end up with over 300 packages. So i'm guessing anaconda calculates dependencies in a slightly different way, can anyone point me to files/code where i should be looking to find out? Thanks very much in advance for help Nick This e-mail is the property of Quadriga Worldwide Ltd, intended for the addressee only and confidential. Any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from Quadriga may be monitored. Quadriga cannot guarantee any message delivery method is secure or error-free. Information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. We do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in this message and/or attachment that arise as a result of transmission. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Quadriga.

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Red Hat IPA
by Joe Royall 27 May '09

27 May '09

Red Hat recentely released thier IPA server as open source. Is Centos considering a rebuild? -- Joe Royall

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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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xenpv drivers status
by Karanbir Singh 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

I wonder if anyone can check what is to become of the xenpv drivers that were recently released ( ref: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2008-0274.html ) They were not included on the 5.2 media... Are they still available from an EL5.2-from-media install via rhn or something such ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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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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perl-devel package
by Kenneth Porter 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5. I knew it wouldn't be in the CentOS repos (although I checked anyway) so I went looking in Fedora Rawhide and pulled down the SRPM I found there. I attempted to build it and it failed due to a missing "perl-devel" package. Some investigation indicates that somewhere in Fedora's history the headers and development utilities in Perl got broken out into a separate subpackage. It looks like this happened at 5.8.8-15. This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and depends on the existing perl package?

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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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Bad checksums in repodata
by Joshua Baker-LePain 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

It seems like there are some bad checksums in the updates repodata for the x86_64 5.2 tree (the onlyone I've checked). Trying to update a freshly installed (and fairly minimal, so I don't know exactly how many packages are affected) system I get: http://$myserver/yum/updates/centos-5/x86_64/RPMS/selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-137.1.el5.noarch.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download http://$myserver/yum/updates/centos-5/x86_64/RPMS/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download http://$myserver/yum/updates/centos-5/x86_64/RPMS/selinux-policy-2.4.6-137.1.el5.noarch.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download And, indeed, checking the sha1sums of those packages against the values in repodata/primary.xml.gz shows that they differ. I verified this against multiple mirrors. Running 'createrepo' fixes the issue. It seems like there's already a hint of this as Issue 2997. Thanks. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

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createrepo --split
by Hao Xu 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

Hi! I fought createrepo --split for hours and could not get it work. My command is: createrepo -g /path/to/my/comps.xml -c /tmp/cache -o /mycentos/os/x86_64-disc1 --split /mycentos/os/x86_64-disc? During installation, anaconda will fail as soon as it starts to install any packages. The error message is cannot find wvdial-....x86-64.rpm (or minicom-...rpm or something because I tried several times), which is in disc2. Any clues? Thanks in advance. Hao

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thunderbird and kernel for centos-4
by Johnny Hughes 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

New kernel and thunderbird for centos 4 SRPMS on master: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.src.rpm thunderbird-1.5.0.12-14.el4.centos.src.rpm

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Failed: yum install ghostscript-fonts texi2html
by Jerry Amundson 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

cleaned yum, but: Error Downloading Packages: ghostscript-fonts - 5.50-13.1.1.noarch: failure: CentOS/ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.1.noarch.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. texi2html - 1.76-4.fc6.noarch: failure: CentOS/texi2html-1.76-4.fc6.noarch.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. jerry -- "Be a good boy, and always let your conscience be your guide." - The Blue Fairy

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Warnings building centosplis kernel-xen from .SRPM
by Andy Burns 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

A few weeks back I needed to rebuild the centosplus kernel-xen on x86_64, I don't recall getting anything other than the "usual" sprinkling of compiler warnings. Now I've needed to rebuild the centosplus kernel-xen, this time on i686, I do get a built and working kernel+modules, but I get a particularly "hairy" set of warnings as follows, anyone else rebuilt this from the .SRPMs and had similar, do those warnings look bad to anyone else? Or is it normal with 32bit xen? MODPOST WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel from .text between '_text' (at offset 0xc040006b) and 'L6' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0xc04020ff) and 'try_name' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem from .text between 'cpu_init' (at offset 0xc040c6c3) and 'c_start' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'online_page' (at offset 0xc0412ce9) and 'pgd_ctor' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a3fe) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a409) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a414) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a41f) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a42a) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a435) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a440) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a44b) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a456) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a461) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060a46c) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low from .text between 'swiotlb_init_with_default_size' (at offset 0xc04e6b79) and 'swiotlb_init' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem from .text between 'swiotlb_init_with_default_size' (at offset 0xc04e6bd9) and 'swiotlb_init' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem from .text between 'swiotlb_init_with_default_size' (at offset 0xc04e6c1e) and 'swiotlb_init' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low from .text between 'swiotlb_init_with_default_size' (at offset 0xc04e6c34) and 'swiotlb_init' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem from .text between 'vgacon_startup' (at offset 0xc04f675f) and 'vgacon_scrolldelta' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:logo_linux_clut224 from .text between 'fb_find_logo' (at offset 0xc04ff08c) and 'cfb_fillrect' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low from .text between 'xen_machine_kexec_setup_resources' (at offset 0xc054a10d) and 'xen_machine_kexec_load' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060b263) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'iret_exc' (at offset 0xc060b26e) and '_etext' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:reserve_ibft_region from __ksymtab between '__ksymtab_reserve_ibft_region' (at offset 0xc065590c) and '__ksymtab_ibft_addr'

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Network on CentOS 5.2
by Marcus Moeller 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

Hi all. I am not yet sure if this is a general problem and already known, but on my machine (a FSC M9400 Notebook) the network was slightly broken until I installed the latest updates. The IP address has been correctly assigned and is shown by ifconfig. The network access worked for a while (about 5 minutes) until it broke. Then, pinging external ressources was still possible but trying to access Webservers or other TCP links did no longer work. After an yum update (including a kernel upgrade) and a reboot the problem has gone. Best Regards Marcus

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Create my own CentOS mug?
by Niels de Vos 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hello, as I can't find any (cool) CentOS merchandise, I'm thinking about creating/ordering my own mug. In the CentOS wiki there is a very cool anaconda splashscreen; it's a real eye-catcher :) Unfortunately the image is not of high quality (probably because anaconda can't handle that). Some images have the corresponding .svg with it, the anaconda splashscreen doesn't. Can sombody point me to or provide me with a higher quality version of the splashscreen? I could offer help for getting a small shop started. However I'm not directly affiliated with the CentOS project, nor do I have any experience with creating webshops... Thanks in advance, Niels Anaconda plashscreen: <http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/DistroDesign/modern-CentOS#head-97ae478f9492…>

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New Horde version ... should we upgrade?
by Johnny Hughes 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

There is a new version of the Horde framework and the other packages that go with it. The new framework is 3.2.x and most of the other <name>-h3-<version> apps also go up a minor number. The problem with this upgrade is that there is a new database schema and it is a "lots of admin action required" upgrade to a new version. I can't really run the database upgrade SQL script during the upgrade process, so the user is left with a broken system after the upgrade. With enterprise linux distros, upgrades like this are to be avoided. So the question is ... do we just leave Horde at latest 3.1.x level and use 3.2.X in CentOS-6? There is the possibility of a horde32 (and all the others apps also as required) and set that to conflict with "horde < 3.2" on C5, BUT that introduces it's own issues. My feeling is that we stick with the latest horde in the 3.1.x series in CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 (which is 3.1.8) and we wait until CentOS-6 where we will introduce the 3.2.x series (and all the associated apps). What does everyone else think? Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Status of PHP 5.2?
by Hugo van der Kooij 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Could someone tell me what the status is of PHP 5.2 for Centos 5? I actually found software I would like to run but roundcubemail 0.2 needs PHP 5.2 and it seems an improvement over v0.1 which allready seems to be a better user experience compared to the aging squirrelmail. 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) iD8DBQFIft9rBvzDRVjxmYERAhO6AJ41GDfyv2aM9I2VK4nbTA2A4kex1ACfT+OJ cmXX+jABIfFz7WzVq7Tz4Gs= =xjLG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Need kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.x86_64.rpm
by Jerry Amundson 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Short story: Would it be possible to get kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.x86_64.rpm on di.c.o? I have a need to run crash on a 2.6.9-67.0.20.ELxenU xm dump-core. Long story: Two Dell 6950 (now called R905, 4 Dual-Core AMD Opteron 8200 series) heartbeat/drbd nodes running the stock CentOS 5.2 Dom0. The domU's are the only resources in heartbeat. Dom1 is a perfectly running, updated, CentOS 5.2 Apache/MySQL/Samba server (2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen). It's xen config: name = "guinan" bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" uuid = "8fa0ac9e-fe28-17f5-6a72-07f84b4daa24" memory = 4097 vcpus = 6 on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,keymap=en-us" ] disk = [ "phy:/dev/drbd1,xvda,w", "phy:/dev/drbd2,xvdb,w" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:68:16:5d,bridge=xenbr0", "bridge=xenbr1" ] Dom2 is a CentOS 4.6 software development and database server (2.6.9-67.0.20.ELxenU). Every so often, could be several hours or several days, it just hangs, locks up, becomes unresponsive. Nothing to the console. Nothing logged. When it gets to this point, the only recourse is an xm destroy. It's occurred with every combination of Dom0/DomU. The hardware of both servers checks out OK. The only sign of life, on Dom2's current Dom0, xentop shows CPU usage, and at a high percent, at that: xentop - 12:02:36 Xen 3.1.2-92.1.6.el5 2 domains: 2 running, 0 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown Mem: 16775712k total, 11629904k used, 5145808k free CPUs: 8 @ 2194MHz NAME STATE CPU(sec) CPU(%) MEM(k) MEM(%) MAXMEM(k) MAXMEM(%) VCPUS NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) VBDS VBD_OO VBD_RD VBD_WR SSID Domain-0 -----r 50891 1.5 901352 5.4 no limit n/a 8 4 17720114 18765713 0 0 0 0 0 monolith -----r 965342 599.2 10486632 62.5 10486784 62.5 6 2 332672635 30178285 2 0 15805538 60805435 0 I've experimented with various xen config's. Currently it's this: name = "monolith" uuid = "283746fa-c708-cfa0-f5df-cad6abea568e" memory = 10241 vcpus = 4 bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,keymap=en-us" ] disk = [ "phy:/dev/drbd3,xvda,w", "phy:/dev/drbd4,xvdb,w" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:08:8d:c3,bridge=xenbr0", "bridge=xenbr1" ] Previously, I'd tried adjusting memory, but the problem resurfaced. Currently, I've gone from 6 vcpus to the 4 shown above in the hopes that stabilizes it. I'm at wits end. I've committed these machines to production status, so this instability has everyone kind of on edge, and wanting to go back to bare metal... jerry -- "Your life is trite and jaded, boring and confiscated." - Twisted Sister

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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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perl and perl::IO conflict
by Hugo van der Kooij 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The MailScanner software requires Perl IO v1.23 but perl still ships with v1.22 of the IO module. In the past the IO version was even older and the conflict betwen packages was limited to some manual pages. For that I could create a workaround by putting the manual pages in a different package. But with recent perl updates this no longer works. So the MailScanner community advises one to do the following: ~ - rpm -e perl-IO ~ - yum update (to update perl) ~ - rpm -i --force perl-IO... The bit about the --force option is something I am not at all comfortable with. Using --force on the rm command is about as bad as using it on the F* command. So I was thinking of rebuilding perl to include a new version of the IO module but I can not get my head around it. The goal is to make a repository that can be used beside the normal repositories of Centos and rpmforge to install and maintain MailScanner and the minimal required packages. Anyone any ideas on how to tackle this? BTW the conflict shows up as: ~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO.pm from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Dir.pm from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/File.pm from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Dir.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::File.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Handle.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Pipe.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Poll.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Seekable.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Select.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::INET.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 ~ file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::UNIX.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 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) iD8DBQFIecLEBvzDRVjxmYERAsikAJ9LJfU2a/7Ud6QceOS3K+c7RQS+owCfcaQM xvYVSAZDtkapHoReTSJXnVc= =d92R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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fixing broken yum update
by Ned Slider 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hi all, Not quite sure where best to float this idea so I thought I try here first to reach a wider audience. Recently we have seen a number of threads on the fora dealing with broken 'yum update' issues during updates from 5.1 to 5.2. I guess the mailing list has probably seen it's share of similar issues. Here's an example of one such thread: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14999&forum=37 I'm wondering if it would be useful to put together a *generic* procedure to recover from such issues, one that should work in most cases. In addition, maybe some advice/tips to minimise the risk of performing a large update. I'm thinking of things like performing updates in a screen session when remotely updating over an ssh login in case the ssh connection gets lost mid-update. Also, I tend to perform updates in smaller chunks like: manually install new kernel packages yum update yum\* rpm\* yum update open\* yum update gnome\* kde\* xorg\* etc to minimise the damage if it goes horribly wrong at any point. Not sure if that's good practice or not but it works for me. Plus any other advice relevant to the update procedure - how many times did people ask the difference between 'yum upgrade' and 'yum update', and which they should use :) If it's deemed a good idea, I'm happy to help put together a Wiki page or something although some help with the content (ie, a generic fix, tips and advice) would be appreciated.

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Any news about next kvm release for centos 5.2?
by carlopmart 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hi all, Which will be next stable release for CentOS 5.2?? Can i use on a production enviromment?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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yum-cron missing from x86_64 tree
by Joshua Baker-LePain 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

It would seem that yum-cron is missing from the x86_64 tree. Is there any reason for this, or am I just missing something? Thanks! -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

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Distro Theming
by Alain Reguera Delgado 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi guys, What do you think of adding some of modern-CentOS design into our CentOS distro ? Take a look at: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/DistroDesign/modern-CentOS I would like to collect comments of people how really know what things must be changed, dimensions, CentOS Look and Feel, and stuff like that, in order to focus the actions over what is really needed. Here we propose: 1. Anaconda new designs (slides, splash, etc). 1. A Wallpaper 1. A LoginScreen 1. A GRUB Boot Image. I would like to build that page like a Template with useful information about the CentOS key elements that need to be changed, and how they could be changed (note that some elements like rhgb need modifications on a file splash.c that a "find / -iname splash.c" did'nt find, maybe that's on my pc only). Also how could we test an anaconda new design ? to make fixes and adjustments. Anything else you consider useful is welcome. This initial work is based on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ThemingOverview Cheers, al.

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