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forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

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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yum-3.2.8 for Centos 4 backport, part II.
by David Hrbáč 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

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

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CentOS 5.4 Artwork Preview
by Alain Reguera Delgado 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi guys, What do you think of the following artwork ? http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Preview-5.4 Cheers, al. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin

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Re: [CentOS-devel] [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis
by Farkas Levente 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

On 07/30/2009 02:34 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > I'd personally like to hear what the community has to say about this, > as it's not just an internal matter. Please speak up so that we know > where the community stands on this. I'd rather be wrong, but know how > people feel than take a stand for a community who has other ideas. this's not the only thing (but may be one of the most dangerous). i also like to know who are responsible for what is the community?: - who are the centos-3 updates maintainers - who are the centos-4 updates maintainers - who are the centos-5 updates maintainers - who will be the centos-6 maintainers - who are qa team - who are responsible for the centos.org domain and dns (ok lance) - who are responsible for the website, wiki, mailing list - how has root access to the hardware infrastructure and i hope none of the above is a single element set:-) - what is the hardware infrastructure of centos team - is there any cvs, svn, git for the development why not public - how the release and update build process look like - can we see the build farm status, build logs etc. - what is the qa process all of these information cab be put up to the wiki in a few hours by those who know the answers. if these and may be a few other question can be public and clean to the community we can arrange resources and probably can speed up the updates and release process. eg. i'm very interesting how long will it take the 5.4 release (as we all remember how can one man can stop the whole 5.3 release process and no one like to repeat it again). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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need some testing help
by Karanbir Singh 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

The Bind update for EL4 was just announced, packages that fix the issues ( see https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1179.html ) are available for C4 at http://dev.centos.org/~z00dax/c4-bind/ we dont normally release updates till the packages used for the build are also available, however since this is a major issue - it would be nice to get these updates out right away. Keeping that in mind could someone test for : a) install these packages, make sure they work for the basic stuff b) update an existing bind install on C4 and make sure it does not break anything c) ensure that the deps for the actual binaries are met cleanly within the existing CentOS-4 os + updates set. As soon as we can get reasonable testing feedback here, we can push these packages into the released updates pool. Thanks -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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nss-3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_3.2 cacert missing
by Farkas Levente 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

hi, is it a bug or intentional that from latest nss-3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_3.2 the cacert patch missing? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS-devel Digest, Vol 53, Issue 9
by Alan Zheng 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Dear everyone: I have a question, when I try to compile *kernel-2.6.30.1*, but after I compiled modules, I always cannot get any .ko files, and it showed: *Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 0 modules* My working kernel is *2.6.18-128.2.1.el5* CentOS 5, and I have update everything to up-to-data by "yum update". Did anyone know why it is? By the way, my compile kernel step is that: 1) make mrproper 2) make menuconfig 3) make bzImage 4) make modules 5) make install 6) make modules_install Refer to: http://www.microsuncn.com Best Regards Alan Zheng

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xfs-kmod
by Farkas Levente 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

hi, i try to rebuild kmod-xfs, but none of the centosplus and extras xfs-kmod-0.4-2.src.rpm are rebuild. i try on x86_64 but i've got these errors on i386 not even start to build (may be my fault?) while on x86_64 bellow. is there any plan to fix it? ------------------------------------------------ Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7636 + umask 022 + cd /home/robot/rpm/BUILD + cd xfs-kmod-0.4 + LANG=C + export LANG + unset DISPLAY + for kvariant in '""' + ksrc=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.1.16.el5-x86_64 + cd _kmod_build_ + make TOPDIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.1.16.el5-x86_64 modules -j4 make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.1.16.el5-x86_64 OOT_BUILD=y SUBDIRS=/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_ modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.1.16.el5-x86_64' CC [M] /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_dquot.o CC [M] /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_dquot_item.o CC [M] /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_trans_dquot.o In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/xfs.h:21, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_dquot.c:19: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'set_buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'set_buffer_unwritten' was here /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'clear_buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'clear_buffer_unwritten' was here /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'buffer_unwritten' was here make[2]: *** [/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_dquot.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/xfs.h:21, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_dquot_item.c:19: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'set_buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'set_buffer_unwritten' was here /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'clear_buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'clear_buffer_unwritten' was here /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'buffer_unwritten' was here make[2]: *** [/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_dquot_item.o] Error 1 In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/xfs.h:21, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_trans_dquot.c:19: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'set_buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'set_buffer_unwritten' was here /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'clear_buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'clear_buffer_unwritten' was here /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h:120: error: redefinition of 'buffer_unwritten' include/linux/buffer_head.h:126: error: previous definition of 'buffer_unwritten' was here make[2]: *** [/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_/quota/xfs_trans_dquot.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. make[1]: *** [_module_/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/xfs-kmod-0.4/_kmod_build_] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.1.16.el5-x86_64' make: *** [modules] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7636 (%build) ------------------------------------------------ -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Centos 5.3 linux askmethod FTP install problem with wrong url
by Pasi Kärkkäinen 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Hello. I submitted this bug: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3734 We can also discuss it here, if needed. -- Pasi

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[Patch] request for add VIA VX800 storage support on CentOS 5.3
by BruceChang＠via.com.tw 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

To whom it may concern: I would like to request your help to integrate following patch for the HDD support of VIA VX800/VT8261/VT8237/CX700 platform: Signed off by Joseph Chan <JosephChan(a)via.com.tw> --- a/include/linux/pci_ids.h 2009-06-04 11:43:38.000000000 +0800 +++ b/include/linux/pci_ids.h 2009-06-08 18:43:22.000000000 +0800 @@ -1336,9 +1336,11 @@ #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8251 0x3287 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237A 0x3337 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237S 0x3372 +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8261 0x3402 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8231 0x8231 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8231_4 0x8235 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8365_1 0x8305 +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_5324 0x5324 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700 0x8324 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_VX800 0x8353 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8371_1 0x8391 --- a/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c 2006-09-20 11:42:06.000000000 +0800 +++ b/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c 2009-06-08 18:42:28.000000000 +0800 @@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ u8 rev_max; u16 flags; } via_isa_bridges[] = { + { "vx800", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_VX800, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, + { "cx700", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, + { "vt8237s", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237S, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, + { "vt8237a", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237A, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, { "vt6410", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_6410, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, + { "vt8261", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8261, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, { "vt8251", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8251, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, { "vt8237", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, { "vt8237a", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237A, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST }, @@ -498,6 +503,7 @@ { PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C576_1, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0}, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C586_1, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0}, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_6410, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 1}, + { PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_5324, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 1}, { 0, }, }; MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, via_pci_tbl); Thanks and Best Regards ================================================= Bruce C. Chang(張祖明) VIA Technologies, Inc. Address: 1F, 531, Chung-Cheng Road, Hsin-Tien, 231 Taipei Tel: +886-2-22185452 Ext 7323 Mobile: +886-968343824 Fax: +886-2-22186282 Skype: Bruce.C.Chang Email: BruceChang(a)via.com.tw

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php-mcrypt 5.2.6 test repo
by Adam Adamou 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hello all, I ve been using php 5.2.6 from the testing repo for a month now and everything works fine. The only thing is I cant find php-mcrypt for 5.2.6 from the testing repo. phpmyadmin is saying that is missing but php-mcrypt from the base repo is installed. Thanks, Adam

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Questions about the centos rebuild process / s390x related
by Sascha Thomas Spreitzer 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hello hackers, i have been asked from some companies, 1. how long it would take to rebuild a centos from scratch if I would have a whole CP (common processor) for it. 2. What the build process includes, meaning "steps to success" 3. whether the licenses force a maintainer to push the resulting distribution upstream. 4. In which cases the maintainer is liable for the resulting distribution rpms, binaries, etc... It would be VERY helpful if I can clarify those questions. It might spend us 1 CP. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, / with kind regards, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer http://spreitzer.name/

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sqlite in CentOS4 ... why?
by Adam Miller 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

I was recently told that sqlite is now in base in CentOS4, I was wondering why this is since "upstream" doesn't ship it. [root@fooBox ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) [root@fooBox ~]# up2date --showall | grep -i sqlite [root@fooBox ~]# -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Starting a s390x rebuild on my own
by Sascha Thomas Spreitzer 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Good morning hackers, me and others tried to form a special interest group and didn't succeed well. So im starting my own rebuild now. I have access to a z/VM guest and some hercules with 1k mips, too Ill inform you next time the CentOS 5.3 basic package set has been created. Id be thankful if the final version could be mirrored upstream. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, / with kind regards, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer http://spreitzer.name/

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Libraries not stripped in rebuilt rpms and larger packages
by Luigi Iotti 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Hi all I usually rebuild some CentOS rpm packges with some changes I need. I noticed that I obtain slightly larger packages than the ones found in the centOS distribution, even if I rebuild a source rpm without changing anything. I looked in it, and it turned out that my shared libraries are not stripped, where the ones found in your packages are. For example, I just rebuilt the openldap packages, and obtained a package that is about 3 times larger: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10899106 Jul 7 22:42 my/openldap-servers-2.3.43-3.el5.lux.2.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3202917 Jul 8 16:38 orig/openldap-servers-2.3.43-3.el5.i386.rpm I extracted the packages with rpm2cpio, and the difference in size are in the shared libraries, for example: # ls -l */usr/lib/libslapd_db-4.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6518365 Jul 8 16:42 my/usr/lib/libslapd_db-4.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1032880 Jan 21 10:00 orig/usr/lib/libslapd_db-4.4.so # file */usr/lib/libslapd_db-4.4.so my/usr/lib/libslapd_db-4.4.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped orig/usr/lib/libslapd_db-4.4.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped Maybe the CentOS build system contains some macros that strip libraries, and the distributed macros do not. I put this in /etc/rpm/macros (the line calling brp-strip-shared was added to the analogous macro taken from /usr/lib/rpm/redhat): %__os_install_post \ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress \ %{!?__debug_package:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip %{__strip}} \ %{!?__debug_package:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-shared %{__strip}} \ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive %{__strip} \ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note %{__strip} %{__objdump} \ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile \ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars \ %{nil} Do you see any problems doing so? Why there is this difference between packages distributed by CentOS and the same packages rebuilt in a CentOS environment? Thank you

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Where can I help?
by Adam Miller 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hello all, My name is Adam Miller and I'm currently a Fedora Packager/Developer and Ambassador, also a RHEL admin by $dayjob. I've come to a point to where I rely on CentOS for my VPSs hosted via Linode.com and would like to contribute back to CentOS where I am able. I was curious if there are any areas of CentOS that are currently in need of help/involvement? Thanks in advance, -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Building an automated rpm build system
by carlopmart 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hi all, I need to setup a centos 5 x86_64 server to build custom rpms for centos5, rhel5 and oel5. My requeriments are: - Build rpms only from src.rpm packages and .spec files. - Restrict architectures: I only need to build these packages for i386 and x86_64 hosts. - See logs when packages are builded. - Easy to install and lightweight, if it is possible. I have seen mock and koji. Mock it seems ver older but can I use to accomplish these? And koji it seems very complex. Any ideas?? Exists another build system?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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