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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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forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

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 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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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CentOS 5.3 ETA?
by Axel Thimm 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi, just a question on whether there is a known ETA for it. The reason I'm asking is that I accidentially removed some 5.2. kernel support from ATrpms (not for the 5.2 plus kernels, just the vendor ones) and if 5.3 would take longer I would rebuild the erased bits. Otherwise I would ask the users to wait for a couple of days. Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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CentOS Directory Server (CDS) and more is available for testing
by Jason Cox 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Tim Verhoeven wrote: > 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 : Any updates on when we will see this ready for production use? I would like to get away from our current way of providing server authentication and implement CDS. I pretty much have the tools written to use CDS now, but I can not move forward untill it is out of a "testing" status in my environment. --- Jason Cox

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How to make that CentOS support our IDE card?
by Kevin Huang (黃凱文) 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Our Company have some IDE Cards. How to make that CentOS support our IDE card? How can I do for this? Or some information can let me know. Sincerely Yours, --------------------------------------- RDC Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

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Re: [CentOS-devel] drbd modules for recent centos 4.x kernel updates
by Kevin Fenzi 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:41:18AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at tummy.com> > > wrote: > > > Greetings. > > > > > > It seems the drbd modules are still not present for recent update > > > kernels for CentOS 4.x. ;( > > > > > > See: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3291 > > > > > > Any idea when they might be available? > > > > > > Or is work being done to make them non kernel specific as has > > > been done in CentOS 5.x? > > > > I am planning to submit the kernel-independent version of kmod-xfs > > and kmod-drbd packages for CentOS-4. Excellent. > They have been pushed on Feb 6th, but I missed the metadata > generation :( Cool. I see the drbd82 ones now. Any chance for 0.7.x ones as well? Or will there be no more of those? > Tru kevin

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drbd modules for recent centos 4.x kernel updates
by Kevin Fenzi 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Greetings. It seems the drbd modules are still not present for recent update kernels for CentOS 4.x. ;( See: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3291 Any idea when they might be available? Or is work being done to make them non kernel specific as has been done in CentOS 5.x? Thanks for any info... kevin

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ECCN and CentOS
by Karanbir Singh 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

hi, Over the last few months we have been repeatedly been asked about ECCN and CentOS and how things work work for companies/governments etc. The usual response is: were not your lawyers, speak to your lawyers. Would someone on this list like to pick this up as an issue and work it out, perhaps document something on the wiki / website and try to build a picture that people could look at, and take some useful information away from ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Missing openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_7.2.i586.rpm package
by David Hrbáč 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi, I guess there's missing package within the update repository. As we have openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1.i386.rpm 18-Nov-2007 21:54 1.1M openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1.i586.rpm 18-Nov-2007 22:59 1.1M openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1.i686.rpm 18-Nov-2007 22:59 1.1M in the base repo. I can see only openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_7.2.i386.rpm 23-Jan-2009 22:36 1.1M openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_7.2.i686.rpm 23-Jan-2009 22:36 1.1M in the update repo. Thanks, David Hrbáč

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TOMOYO enabled kernels for CentOS
by Tetsuo Handa 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hello. I'm an author of TOMOYO Linux, access control extension for Linux kernel. TOMOYO Linux 2.x is now in security-testing-2.6.git tree and will be included into upstream sooner or later. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6.git;… I'm also maintaining RPM packages for CentOS 3.9/4.7/5.2 . I'm ready to support kernel-2.6.18-128.el5 as soon as CentOS 5.3 gets released. While http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packages/ContributeYourRPMs says "Submit the .spec file along with a URL to the src.rpm file to CentOS-devel mailing list;", I only pasted a script which generates a spec file because the kernel's spec file is very large. -------------------- #! /bin/sh # # This is a kernel build script for CentOS 5.2's 2.6.18 kernel. # die () { echo $1 exit 1 } cd /tmp/ || die "Can't chdir to /tmp/ ." if [ ! -r kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.src.rpm ] then wget http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/5.2/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el… || die "Can't download source package." fi rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.src.rpm || die "Can't install source package." cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ || die "Can't chdir to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ ." if [ ! -r ccs-patch-1.6.6-20090202.tar.gz ] then wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.jp/tomoyo/30297/ccs-patch-1.6.6-20090202.tar.gz || die "Can't download patch." fi cd /tmp/ || die "Can't chdir to /tmp/ ." cp -p /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec . || die "Can't copy spec file." patch << "EOF" || die "Can't patch spec file." --- kernel-2.6.spec 2008-12-17 01:17:06.000000000 +0900 +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2008-12-17 14:58:33.000000000 +0900 @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ # that the kernel isn't the stock distribution kernel, for example, # by setting the define to ".local" or ".bz123456" # -#% define buildid +%define buildid _tomoyo_1.6.6 # %define sublevel 18 %define kversion 2.6.%{sublevel} @@ -281,6 +281,9 @@ # to versions below the minimum # +# TOMOYO Linux +%define signmodules 0 + # # First the general kernel 2.6 required versions as per # Documentation/Changes @@ -306,7 +309,7 @@ # %define kernel_prereq fileutils, module-init-tools, initscripts >= 8.11.1-1, mkinitrd >= 4.2.21-1 -Name: kernel +Name: ccs-kernel Group: System Environment/Kernel License: GPLv2 URL: http://www.kernel.org/ @@ -4854,6 +4857,10 @@ # END OF PATCH APPLICATIONS +# TOMOYO Linux +tar -zxf %_sourcedir/ccs-patch-1.6.6-20090202.tar.gz +patch -sp1 < patches/ccs-patch-2.6.18-centos-5.2.diff + cp %{SOURCE10} Documentation/ mkdir configs @@ -4913,6 +4920,9 @@ for i in *.config do mv $i .config + # TOMOYO Linux + cat config.ccs >> .config + sed -i -e "s/CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=.*/# CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set/" -- .config Arch=`head -1 .config | cut -b 3-` make ARCH=$Arch nonint_oldconfig > /dev/null echo "# $Arch" > configs/$i EOF mv kernel-2.6.spec ccs-kernel.spec || die "Can't rename spec file." echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "Edit /tmp/ccs-kernel.spec if needed, and run" echo "rpmbuild -bb --without kabichk /tmp/ccs-kernel.spec" echo "to build kernel rpm packages." exit 0 -------------------- I posted this message as I have several questions. (1) TOMOYO can't be built as a kernel module, and will break kabi compatibility checking. Is it possible to add "a rebuilt kernel with added drivers and filesystem support" which breaks kabi compatibility checking into CentOS repository? (2) I'm everytime manually patching .spec file and rebuilding RPM package. This causes some delays between the CentOS's kernel release and TOMOYO enabled kernel release. To be able to release updates as soon as possible, I will be happy if an automated build environment is available. Can I release updates sooner than now? (3) Whose GPG key is used for signing "modules in TOMOYO enabled kernel RPM package" and "TOMOYO enabled kernel RPM packages"? Regards.

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