Hi,
Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the
present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises
the main issue ( s/w ).
We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb.
They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months
back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin
CentOS-DS / openldap based backend.
So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these
…
[View More]international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there
is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list )
- phpBB
- SMF
- Fudforum
- phorum
- fluxbb
Requirements:
- Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs )
- Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in
writing the ldap-auth portion )
- Must address the specific requirements raised by the present
www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? )
- Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good )
- Secure
- Skin'able
Nice to have:
- Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment
- responsive community :D
Things we will need to do:
- Decide on what s/w to use.
- Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted.
- Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is
a language too :D ).
- Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w
- setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org
Actions:
Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server,
once that is online we will then start by installing into our
test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them.
If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in.
I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to
track progress.
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Hi,
I have again worked on yum 3.2.8 for Centos 4 today, after a long time.
The result is backported package yum-3.2.8-9.el4.hrb.2.1.5 which is the
upgrade of yum-3.2.8-9.el4.hrb.2.1.3 I've been using smoothly for quite
a long time.
Packages are in testing repos:
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/testing/i386/repodata/http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/testing/x86_64/repodata/
I'd like to ask for QA tests. This patched version passes all the
internal yum tests (aka 'make test').
Regards,
David Hrbáč
I've mirrored the 5.4 repos and run createrepo on WBEL crossed with
Centos4 on account of the WB folk seem to be MIA.
Presumably, there's something wrong with my incantation of createrepo or
something, because anaconda complains.
It says my repo is butchers and proffers a reboot button.
"Unable to read group information from repositories, This is a problem
with the generation of your install tree."
Okay, above is background. Here's the odd bit.
I choose the one button on offer, and …
[View More]Anaconda goes on and installs!
I'm not sure what it installs, but there is a bootable system, A kernel,
grub are both properly in place.
I can login as root, but root's dot files are not in place, so that bash
doesn't do its initialisation. Manually copying the contents /etc/skel
works.
Can't really see what's installed because rpm isn't.
It's really secure, it starts no daemons at all.
Of course, anaconda should be rebooting, but this is way more entertaining.
Am I right to think I should be telling createrepo about the file,
comps.xml?
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Cheers
John
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ALCON,
I recently tested CentOS 5.3/5.4 with VirtualBox, and had some issues
getting the video to pronounce itself properly. After logging on it
was able to function in full screen mode capably (when I had used a
customized xconf.org file that someone had published as "working", as
well as having installed the VirtualBox "guest additions"), but the
login screen did not configure into a proper manner.
I read a few postings about this issue being related to the xrandr
library …
[View More]version that is used within CentOS, but since I do not have
RedHat 5.3 or 5.4, presume this might be a CentOS only issue for some
reason?
Can anyone enlighten me regarding this issue and any recommended
methods for working around it?
Thanks in advance, and do have a most wonderful and blessed day.
--
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Beverly Hills, CA / Las Vegas, NV / Philadelphia, PA / Washington, DC
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Nextel: 124*233172*14 (direct connect)
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On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 14:47 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 10/02/2009 02:44 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > I've used the LiveCD tools to produce LiveDVD images with GNOME/KDE
> (and
> > extra drivers + multimedia - which brings up the LiveCD-plus
> discussions
> > from some time back as well - but that should be another thread).
> Would
> > there be any interest in a LiveDVD offering?
>
> sounds like a good candidate for centos-devel list :)
On Fri, …
[View More]2009-10-02 at 09:59 -0400, Patrice Guay wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > Any progress on adding persistence?
> >
>
> Persistence was added in livecd-tools 0.15. With the move from 0.13 to
> 0.14, I'm getting closer to it but I am not there yet. The move from
> 0.13 to 0.14 required several patches and testing. The same will
> certainly apply for 0.14 to 0.15. I could use some help :)
>
> See https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/browser/trunk
Patrice,
Switching to -devel per Karanbir's suggestion. What help do you need on
getting persistence working, or on LiveCD development in general?
All,
Is there interest in a LiveDVD with more functionality than will fit on
a CD? Perhaps "full desktop/office/productivity/multimedia" GNOME
and/or KDE versions?
How about LiveCDplus (or LiveDVDplus) as discussed in earlier threads?
Perhaps add drivers and/or firmware for common Wifi cards from RPMforge
and/or ELRepo? Multimedia add-ons? Obviously there may be licensing or
other issues depending on what is added. One possibility could be
finding another site to host the images - as in Omega for Fedora.
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7450/1.html
Should the LiveCD tools be in a centos.org repo?
Speaking of the tools - a bit OT... In my testing while writing
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey I found the centos
syslinux not to work (could not find the kernel when booting from USB),
while the livecd version did. Comments or insight on this issue would
be appreciated. Could not find any bug reports in either the CentOS bug
tracker or upstream on the problem.
Phil
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Hi all,
i've made a patch that extends mock-helper for the two new
internal commands 'save' and 'restore' for use with the
new added script /usr/libexec/mock-cache-copy that generates
a root cache, which is linked against the root tree and which
is copied statically.
This takes the double harddisk space of the root tree
(buildsys-build install) but hard disks are big enough today.
The advantage of this is that the files in the cache are
hard-linked to the files in the mock root tree that …
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it extremely fast to delete files (mock clean phase) and
to relink them (copy -ax ... on mock init phase) while unpacking
the cache. The static copy is used to repair touched and modified
(linked) files with rsync.
With this new option 'mock init' takes only 5 Seconds (between
Enter press and shell prompt).
The source package (with the patch included) can be found on the
Beuth repo at:
http://141.64.26.2/repo/bs/el5/SRPMS/mock-0.6.13-5.bs.el5.src.rpm
Especially my old PowerBook G4 / 400 MHz PowerPC (running C-5 ppc
edition) benefits of this feature (keeps the CPU away from tar
and gzip and uses the slow harddisk efficiently).
I hope this useful patch find a way to upstream (Fedora).
Please give me feedback and comparing benchmarks (against mock's
standard cache). ( The global config /etc/mock/defaults.cfg is set
up for using the additional caching method).
cheers,
B.S.
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I thought some of you might like to know-
The latest version of zyx-liveinstaller (0.1.15) now supports the
CentOS-5.4 LiveCD/USB.
http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/zyx-liveinstaller/
This is a ~100kb rpm that can be installed in a running LiveCD/USB
session. Once run, zyx-liveinstaller will then allow you to install the
running system permanently to system-disk.
This is like the anaconda/liveinst installer available with the Fedora
LiveCD/USB, except-
a) it works …
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eject the LiveCD or remove the LiveUSB and continue using the now
installed system.
b) it is still relatively immature, but gets the job done (as far as
I've tested). Installation to external usb drives also works.
c) it can easily be included in a custom CentOS LiveCD spin, without the
downside of having to have an unsupported version of anaconda on the system.
d) it is a fairly simple pygtk frontend for a bash backend. In fact,
all you really need is the single bash script
/usr/sbin/zyx-liveinstaller-cli.
NOTE: that like the Fedora LiveCD installer, it is a *destructive*
install. Target partitions/volumes get reformatted.
-----------------
To do a commandline installation with no seperate /boot partition, the
rootfs on /dev/sda2, and the swap partition on /dev/sda3, you would just
run-
rpm -Uvh \
http://filteredperception.org/downloads/zyx-liveinstaller/zyx-liveinstaller…
zyx-liveinstaller-cli \
/dev/sda2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
-----------------
Note, that if you throw a copy of the 100kb rpm inside the LiveUSB
version of CentOS-5.4, you have a totally portable offline installable
version of CentOS. This is definitely not as seriously usable as the
traditional DVD installer on bootable USB form, but might have its uses.
Bugs, comments, criticisms, and feedback are encouraged.
Now that I've got this working, I'll really get to work helping Patrice
crossport my old LiveUSB persistence patches to Fedora-8/9 to CentOS-5.*.
peace...
-dmc
P.S. To get CentOS-5.4 LiveUSB to boot on my acer aspire one, I had to
change the syslinux.cfg line of 'vesamenu.c32' to 'menu.c32' (and copy
menu.c32). Otherwise an unusable and very grey syslinux bootloader.
Hopefully just a problem with this netbook.
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Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this issue. I've
gotten some feedback on the user's list, but it seems that getting
some developer insight may be appropriate before opening a bug report.
Please see the original thread here :
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/084011.html
memtest86+ found no issues on 8 passes. Since this server has been
solid for a couple of years, I'm inclined to think this is a bug, or
EDAC is finding an issue in some other subsystem (…
[View More]not memory), but
the error info is not sufficient to determine what is really going on.
I have a few Super Micro servers (various motherboards and
revisions) with this chipset running various kernels and versions of
CentOS (with/without i5000_edac). That said, I think I'm in a
position to provide some helpful information to approach this issue,
I just need to know where to go with it. I'm happy to build a custom
kernel with additional code to diagnose the issue.
If needed in the short term, can I simply unload i5000_edac without
crashing the server.
Thoughts?
Chris
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The CentOS fora seem to be seriously hosed ATM. Trying to access
anything at the top level page gives errors like:
An Error Occured
SELECT t.*, u.name, u.uname,u2.name as last_post_name, u2.uname as
last_poster, p.post_time as last_post_time, p.poster_name as
last_poster_name, p.icon, p.post_id, p.post_karma, p.require_reply,
pt.post_text FROM xoops_bb_topics t LEFT JOIN xoops_users u ON u.uid =
t.topic_poster LEFT JOIN xoops_bb_posts p ON p.…
[View More]post_id =
t.topic_last_post_id LEFT JOIN xoops_bb_posts_text pt ON pt.post_id =
t.topic_last_post_id LEFT JOIN xoops_users u2 ON u2.uid = p.uid WHERE
(p.post_time > 1247552420 OR t.topic_sticky=1) AND t.forum_id = 51 AND
t.approved = 1 AND p.approved = 1 ORDER BY t.topic_sticky DESC,
p.post_time DESC
If the page does not automatically reload, please click here
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A message on centos-users has raised a question in my mind about the
openness of the QA process. I'm pretty sure that there is no desire to
greatly expand the QA team, but on the other hand a few more serious QA
testers might be worthwhile. I started to reply to the message below
with a link to an announcement of opportunity to join the QA team from
the centos-devel list, and possibly to add a bit to the "Contribute"
page, but decided it might be better to bounce the idea around here …
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Announcement on CentOS-devel:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-February/001200.html
> [CentOS-devel] CentOS 5 Beta Initial Test Release
> Lance Davis lance at uklinux.net
> Wed Feb 21 13:14:16 UTC 2007
>
> We are about to release an initial internal test release of CentOS 5 beta
> to our qa team.
>
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need to join the
> centos-qa list (http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that
> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join the qa team,
> with details of relevant experience if you are not known to the core
> developers.
>
> Membership of the centos-qa list will then be approved.
>
>
> Lance
>
> --
> uklinux.net -
> The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.
http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-1c14314cdaa251daca6c3a79ff7510c5c05d…
Proposed addition to Contribute:
"Testing of new releases is done by the CentOS Quality Assurance (QA)
team. People interested in helping with QA should first join the
[http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel CentOS
Developer's list] and
[http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa CentOS QA list] and
send a message to mailto:CentOS-devel@centos.org, with details of
relevant experience if not already known to the core developers, saying
that they would like to join the QA team."
I notice that the QA list is not on the CentOS list of lists. Not sure
if this is by design, or has just been overlooked.
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo
Phil
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 'prerelease-access' - is there such a thing?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:22:17 -0500
From: Peter l Jakobi <lists(a)kefk.oa.shuttle.de>
Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org>
To: centos(a)centos.org <centos(a)centos.org>
Hi,
excluding the Frankengrade from CENTOS5.3 to upstream RHEL5.4, is
there are procedure / repository access / nightly builds / ... to what
will be CENTOS 5.4?
URLs? Howtos? Discussion threads or notes?
I checked help, wiki and forums and google, but came up empty.
Of course, this kind of use is depending on the way the new upstream
RHEL sources are processed, so maybe there won't be a complete set of
packages at all until maybe one or two weeks before the release. But
again I got no lucky search hits for this kind of internals either.
I'll gladly collect and summarize for a (hopefully easier locatable)
wiki-page to be :).
cu,
Peter
--
cu
Peter l Jakobi
lists(a)kefk.oa.shuttle.de
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