devel August 2008

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Question about CentOS 4.0beta PowerPC boot CD
by "Brian Schüler" 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi all! Does anyone remember the CentOS 4.0 beta boot CD for PowerPC? This is the only one type of boot CD that go to boot a Kernel on qemu (-system-ppc) with the Open(Hack'ware)Bios. (The Kernel itself hangs up then) Neither the Yellow Dog 6 DVD, nor Fedora 6 - 9 PPC edition, nor Ubuntu / Debian boots on Qemu ppc. So I wanted to adapt the running yaboot loader and configuration to boot the YDL 6 Kernel and initrd to install the stuff to make a mock build server for the el5 ppc Target. But when I (re-)create the .iso with mkisofs, Qemu does not recognize the CD-Image as a boot CD. My Question: Does you (the creator of the 8.5 MB boot.iso) know, how you created the .iso Image? Which options did you have used? I did not have found any documentation how to create those CDs of that type (with a special Macintosh boot partition) that you have produced. Would you like to help me saying how to create qemu-system-ppc compatible boot discs ... ? Thanks in advice, Brian Schueler -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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bugzilla.redhat.com now has CentOS Issue number support
by Karanbir Singh 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

hi Guys, bugzilla.redhat.com now has direct support for cross referencing a CentOS Bug/Issue number. So when filing issues upstream that were reported on bugs.centos.org, check: Add External Bug: CentOS I'll try and get a Custom field added into mantis that would do something simiar for us as well. Should make life a *lot* easier when tracking upstream and when we are still getting comments on issues in bugs.centos.org Regards, - KB

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yum metadata for the c5-testing repository now has sqlite db as well
by Karanbir Singh 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi, As the subject line of this email says, the CentOS-5-Testing repository now also has the sqlite databases along with the usual xml files. This should result in faster end to end yum operations. Depending on how this goes, we will then start adding the sqlite db's to the CentOS-5 repos on mirror.centos.org as well. As always, feedback is required. Either here in this mailing list or on http://bugs.centos.org/ Regards, - KB

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Do hope to meet admin of centos.org, do hope someone could help me
by Lee Nathanael 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

I want to make contribute to centos.org.cn for centos website in China #1 Hi,all developers. I am sorry that I take this topic here because it is so difficult for me to find the right person who will help me for contribution in China. First of all,I want make some self-introduction. I am a professional Community and Website COO in China. My name is as registered Nathanael.At present,I have obtained more than 10 years of Administration and Operation for website and community.In 2008, I have been rewarded by Microsoft for Community Influencer Certificate. Now I am a system and network engineer in Chongqing province ,China. Because I was graduated from English major, I tried my best to help others to learn more.I have found that there are so many centos users in China and most of them need somewhere to find what they want. That's why I make my determination to contact your website and do hope to make contribute for http://www.centos.org.cn, setting up one useful Chinese site for Centos information and community. It is so difficult to express all details for my opinion and plan for centos.org.cn in China.*I do really hope there will be some staff of your site can contact me*.The following information are my contact way.Do really hope to contact you by MSN or other ways. My AIM: haowei2008 My ICQ: 439013358 My MSN: nathanael(AT)msn(DOT)cn My E-mail:benedict2004(AT)126(DOT)com Best Regards for all of you,

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build-from-scratch: SRPM Build order now working
by "Brian Schüler" 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi folks, Calculating the build order out of a set of source RPMs is now possible (even with BuildRequires from sources which are not included). The little trick rpm -E "`cat foo.spec`" did it. Special thanks to Jeff J.! But I have to shorten the output to the essentials because 'rpm' is crashing when the output of the spec file is too long. Here an example for alsa-lib package: [root@centosmirror alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5]# rpm -E "`cat alsa-lib.spec`" *** buffer overflow detected ***: rpm terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x2f)[0x300fee55ff] /usr/lib64/librpmio-4.4.so(rpmExpand+0x66)[0x3011e1a2f6] /usr/lib64/librpm-4.4.so[0x3012622d1c] /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0[0x301b4023e0] /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0[0x301b402419] /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0(poptGetNextOpt+0x402)[0x301b403242] rpm[0x403779] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x300fe1d8b4] rpm[0x4034c9] - build-from-scratch only need a subdirectory called SRPMS with source packages and their additional (not included in CentOS-base) dependencies in. The packages are built on a (remote) mock build server where the ssh-agent must be running and the build server's key added to avoid interaction. The resulting sub directory (i.e. i386) must be published on a http server just-in-time to make it accessible for the mock build server. build-from-scratch checks the setting of the build server, then it calculates the build-order and does some sanity checks on the SRPMs. After that it begins to compile all SRPMs each in a clean build root in the right order. Build errors and dependency lacks are reported on the __BAD subdirectory within the output directory. This is also a great tool for writing high-quality .spec-files. Build-from-scratch can be downloaded from: http://c.dyndns.org/brian/pub/centos/5/tools/ (it needs createrepo and httpd installed.) My hint: Please read it with care before executing. VDR (the digital video disk recorder) is now completely mock-buildable on CentOS-5 and may be added to a contrib-testing-like repository (it is located at http://c.dyndns.org/brian/pub/centos/5/vdr). RPMforge does only accept .spec files where the original URLs to the source tarballs have partially been vanished or are changing in the future (which is not a good idea, I think). So I would have to get storage space there. I hope the build order calculation function helps accelerating the build process for the people who build CentOS and packages for it. Greetings, Brian. -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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OpenLDAP 2.4 for CentOS 4 & 5
by Jeff Sheltren 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've built openldap 2.4.11 packages for el4 and el5. These include compat packages for openldap 2.2 and 2.3, respectively. Since openldap 2.4 has a lot of enhancements over 2.3, I thought it may be valuable to have in ie. the centosplus repo. Also, having the same version of openldap available for centos4 and centos5 may be nice for people. What do you think? The 2.4 release announcement outlines many of the features and can be found here: http://www.openldap.org/software/release/announce.html Please review the packages/spec files found here: http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/ Checksums for the rpms are here signed with my gpg key: http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/checksums.txt Any questions/feedback welcome :) I've tested the EL5 clients/server/ compat out and it seems OK, but I'd appreciate if someone could test on CentOS-4... Thanks, Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkirAQ4ACgkQKe7MLJjUbNP09gCfSDWay7chmjae9yAkd8sASMIp HqEAnA9op8qYabkF4Wvuo2Cg0SVCCH1F =Xyl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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centos5 on s390 - desperately need build instructions
by Hand, Ray 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

I am looking for instructions on how to build Centos5 on the s390 platform. I am new to building a distribution but I have the hardware and a base Centos 4.6 to build from. I requested this assistance last November and still have not received any instructions. Please Help!! Thanks, Ray Hand

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building rhwas 5 srpms
by Joe Pruett 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

i am going to build up the non-java rhwas stuff for centos 5. one thing i've never known is how to figure out what --define or other switches that should be used for the rpmbuild to match what rh does. is there a way to query a rh binary rpm to find out?

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build-from-scratch: pre-processor/parser for .spec files?
by "Brian Schüler" 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Hi, does anybody know a tool/script which pre-processes/parse and dumps a .spec file with preloaded RPM macros? I'm working on a script which will build a set of source RPMs (or even a whole distribution) on a mock build server. The aim of it is to get well defined source RPMs with exact requirements (BuildReqs and Requres by running installation tests in mock in conjunction with ldd on multilib systems). The goal of this is to get all Packages mock-buildable and "certified". I will have to shorten the build duration by calculating the package order with correlation algorythms on the package names. But there are cases where correlation does not work - especially when SRPMs creates packages named different (e.g. mplayer(src) creates mencoder(bin)) and when scanning for "%files" or "%files -n" in the .spec returns unresolved macros. (Example: %files -n vdr-%{pname}-server) When my build-from-scratch script is finished I will release it to the CentOS project, because it will be very important for automation and shorten the release time when (re)building the Distro. Current features: - Building binary packages from SRPMS (in a repository) on a mock server via ssh - Creating root-logs, build-logs and missingdeps-logs - Bypassing bad packages (missdeps, build-failures) on next turns - Semi-"brute-force"-build: re-running as so long as no more packages are built. Planned features: - Certification tests (post-install tests, respin/updates integration tests) - Handling cross-build issues in RPM - Exact build order and circular dependencies detection. I think the solution for my problem can be found in the internals of the rpmbuild utility - if someone has a hint or solution of a .spec parser, he/she is welcome (Google did not satisfy me right now). Thanks in advice Brian -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) is needed but I cannot find it in CentOS 5.2
by Erez Zilber 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.2. I wrote a program that uses rtkaio (so my Makefile contains -lrtkaio). The program runs successfully. The problem began when I wanted to create a rpm for my program. I was able to generate a binary rpm, but when I tried to install it, I got the following error: [root@klab002 tmp]# rpm -i /tmp/mypkg-1.0.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) is needed by mypkg-1.0.x86_64.rpm I checked the dependencies: [root@klab002 tmp]# rpm -qRp /tmp/mypkg-1.0.x86_64.rpm /bin/bash /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /usr/bin/python libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) libnickel.so()(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2)(64bit) rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rtld(GNU_HASH The problem is that librtkaio uses GLIBC_PRIVATE: [root@klab002 tmp]$ nm /lib/rtkaio/librtkaio-2.5.so | grep PRIVATE U __libc_dlopen_mode@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __libc_dlsym@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __libc_fatal@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __libc_pwrite@@GLIBC_PRIVATE w __pthread_clock_gettime@@GLIBC_PRIVATE w __pthread_clock_settime@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __pthread_unwind@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U _rtld_global@@GLIBC_PRIVATE But I couldn't find where these symbols are defined (e.g. __libc_pwrite@@GLIBC_PRIVATE). The workaround that I found is to add the following line to the spec file: "provides: libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)" I guess that there should be a better solution for that. Any idea? Thanks, Erez

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