devel September 2009

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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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QA accessibility
by Phil Schaffner 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

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 instead. 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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ipv6 in mirrorlist
by Karanbir Singh 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

hi, So, running a natively ipv6 machine on CentOS comes with the problem that there are no published ipv6 mirrors in our mirrorlist's - we know about a few ipv6 mirrors, and it should be possible to extend our testing stuff to cover them. Whats the best way to handle this situation ? Am I the only one running native ipv6 at the moment.... is there someway we can gauge what the use-case-density for AAAA mirrorlist.centos.org is at the moment ? should we do the dns record, vhost a static list if we must, of a few ipv6's and see what the hit-rate is ? - KB

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WebsiteV2
by Will Fitch 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hello all, I am offering to lending a hand with version two the site (graphics design, cutting/creating templates or programming) per Karanbir. What can I do to help? ---------------------------------------- Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/willfitch http://www.phpfever.com Will Fitch Zend Certified Engineer Senior Operations DBA and Developer www.quepasa.com Cell: 931.205.8242 Fax: 931.914.1206

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Custom Packages for WebEnvironment
by Marcus Moeller 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hi all. I noticed Russ's recent comments on the Web Infrastructure page and wanted to take it to the public instead of using the wiki for communication: http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/WebEnvironment/Infrastructure?action=dif… There are a few challenges in a common infrastructure setup. We make use of components that are not part of the 'official' CentOS repositories atm. Most of them are web applications like Moin, phpBB, Mailmann, etc. These have to be packed and made available, either in a publicly accessible (preferred) or an internal repo. So maybe CentOS Extras or even Contrib is a good place to hold these new packages. Another advantage is the artwork and style setup. This could either be included directly within the corresponding application packages or packed separately. As we are also replacing some configuration files of HTTP (e.g. error messages) we may also have to re-pack this app. Having RPMs that replace other RPMs configurations is not the preferred way, I guess. Best Regards Marcus

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rlm_ldap
by José Johnny RANDRIAMAMPIONONA 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi all, I am on centOs5.3 and I d like to use freeradius server on it with ldap in remote server. I followed the faq and the tutorial but I am little bored because it seems that I need to install in the local server some ldap library but I don't know how to do it 'cause it doesn't work with yum or another basic system command. In another hand I have this kind of error after doing yum-complete-transaction and I don't know how to fix it: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[root@mde ~]# yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.ircam.fr * updates: mirrors.ircam.fr * addons: mirrors.ircam.fr * extras: mirror.in2p3.fr There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one The remaining transaction had 23 elements left to run There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider running yum-compl ete-transaction first to finish them. --> Running transaction check ---> Package ecryptfs-utils.i386 0:56-8.el5 set to be erased ---> Package gnutls.i386 0:1.4.1-3.el5_2.1 set to be erased ---> Package openssl.i686 0:0.9.8e-7.el5 set to be erased --> Finished Dependency Resolution ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Removing: ecryptfs-utils i386 56-8.el5 installed 322 k gnutls i386 1.4.1-3.el5_2.1 installed 813 k openssl i686 0.9.8e-7.el5 installed 3.3 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 3 Package(s) Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Erasing : gnutls [1/3] Erasing : openssl [2/3] erreur: %postun(gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 Erasing : ecryptfs-utils [3/3] erreur: %postun(openssl-0.9.8e-7.el5.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 Removed: ecryptfs-utils.i386 0:56-8.el5 gnutls.i386 0:1.4.1-3.el5_2.1 openssl.i6 86 0:0.9.8e-7.el5 Not removing old transaction files ---------------------------------------------------* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards JJohnny RANDRIAMAMPIONONA Phone: +212663682554, +212533158575 National School of Applied Sciences ZIP 1818 TANGIER 90000 ---------Morocco ---------------

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RHWAS for CentOS 5
by Greg Swallow 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Red Hat has uploaded the mysql rpm they are builing with the RHWAS rpms now. I think they are all there now except for the java srpm they are using. Any chance CentOS will rebuild at least the non-java stuff in a separate repository? ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHWAS/SRPMS/ Greg

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Re: [CentOS-devel] Testing php 5.2
by Dylan Martin 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

And two months later I finally remember to report that it was, in fact, a disaster. I was attempting to upgrade to php 5.2, but dependencies went berserk, instructor web pages stopped working, bosses yelled at unix admins, etc... etc... Anyone who cares, probably already knows this and this is probably why php 5.2 has stayed in testing so long. I had said "unless you hear more from me", so this is that "more" from "me". -Dylan On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Dylan Martin <dmartin(a)sccd.ctc.edu> wrote: > Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. As far as I can tell, > people who install packages from the testing repo should report the > experience here. If not, please let me know where the correct place > is and I will go away... > > I just enabled the testing repo with includepkgs=php* and ran "yum > update" I had to set "priority=1" to get it to work. There were > conflicts and dependency problems with with php-pecl-apc and > php-pecl-json. I removed php-pecl-apc because I don't use it and > php-pecl-json because the new php-common seems to include it. I've > added the error output below (thank you scroll buffer!) I've got 50 > odd students hammering on this, so unless you hear more from me, take > this as a good sign that this is stable. > > Transaction Check Error: > file /etc/php.d/json.ini from install of > php-common-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 conflicts with file from package > php-pecl-json-1.2.1-3.el5.i386 > file /usr/lib/php/modules/json.so from install of > php-common-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 conflicts with file from package > php-pecl-json-1.2.1-3.el5.i386 > > php-pecl-apc-3.0.19-1.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: php-zend-abi = 20050922 is needed by package > php-pecl-apc-3.0.19-1.el5.i386 (installed) > Error: Missing Dependency: php-zend-abi = 20050922 is needed by > package php-pecl-apc-3.0.19-1.el5.i386 (installed) > root@zephir1# rpm -q php-pecl-apc >

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projects.centos.org
by Karanbir Singh 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Site at projects.centos.org is now back online! Thanks to Concecentric for donating the resources. - KB

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