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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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CentOS 5.x for Sparc?
by Michael Worsham 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Long ago, there was a CentOS build for Sparc under version 4.2 Beta. I checked for the torrents for either the DVD and CD binary or source isos, but no one is seeding that anymore as well. The old Sparc 4.2 beta repo was found here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/ ... but that doesn't have enough information to even attempt a netinstall or a tftp/rarpd boot/install. Then just recently, I saw this CentOS announcement/post: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. [...] Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release to Beta first, and then to Final." Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x? -- Michael

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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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slow Perl on CentOS 5
by Akemi Yagi 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Note: This message was originally in the CentOS mailing list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/063379.html Transferred to centos-devel to fulfill Karanbir's wish (see below). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:39 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] slow Perl on CentOS 5 To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Akemi Yagi wrote: > > should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS > community. If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest > that we get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of > the distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people > in the Perl community ready to assist us. While forking the whole perl subsection of the distro is a bit drastic, I am quite happy to have a perl in C5Plus. Does someone want to get in touch with Keith and get a summary on what needs fixing in this case ? Also - if the conversation was to take place on centos-devel list, would be much cooler. Upstream have said the fix will be in 5U3, and considering that might be still a few months away, could we get something sorted before then ? ( questions, since I dont use perl myself ) -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net -------- End of Forwarded message ------- There was an additional post to the same SL M/L thread which has a link relevant to fixing the broken RH perl. http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274 Akemi

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Testing packages: yum, python-urlgrabber, yum-utils
by Karanbir Singh 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

The following packages are now available in the CentOS-5-Testing repository : yum-3.2.17-0_beta_18_2.el5.centos yum-utils-1.1.14-0_beta_15_2.el5.centos python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-4.el5.centos Notes: - Not all the CentOS Specific patches are rolled into these packages, and as I push them in, the packages will get updated. So yum update often! - yum-utils does not have all plugins enabled as yet either, that will be done with the next build ( this Sunday 17th ). Please leave feedback, either here on this list, or at http://bugs.centos.org/ mark the bugs against project: CentOS-5 component: yum We are specially interested in hearing feedback from people who had/run into issues with the move from yum-3.0 to yum 3.2 with the CentOs-5.2 release. - KB

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still trying to build upstream srpms
by Joe Pruett 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

i have been looking around and i can't see a way to figure out what --define options might be used for rpmbuild by rh. i want to build the rhwas 5 non-java srpms but there is lots of ifdef magic in the spec that could be important to building. so in general, how do we know how the upstream builds things? are there logs somewhere on ftp.redhat.com to look at? or do we have moles that tell us? i'm not even thinking about mock type stuff right now, just trying to figure out the actual rpmbuild command line to use. any clues out there? i've heard that 4.7 is brewing right now, so i understand that the people in the know may be off waving wands over the build gnomes and not paying much attention here...

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Re: [CentOS] slow Perl on CentOS 5
by Gavin Carr 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:39:44AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Akemi Yagi, channeling Keith Lofstrom, wrote: >> should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS >> community. If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest >> that we get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of >> the distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people >> in the Perl community ready to assist us. > > While forking the whole perl subsection of the distro is a bit drastic, I > am quite happy to have a perl in C5Plus. Does someone want to get in touch > with Keith and get a summary on what needs fixing in this case ? Also - if > the conversation was to take place on centos-devel list, would be much > cooler. What are you thinking of here Karanbir? Using the current C5 perl package (so 5.8.8) but with the upstream fixes applied? Or backporting the FC8 package? Or something more divergent from upstream (e.g. do we turn off ithreads)? I assume we're not thinking of rebasing to 5.10, for instance? Cheers, Gavin

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