devel January 2010

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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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Fasttrack for C-5
by Alan Bartlett 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Karanbir, Is there an ETA for this repository yet? A status update would be appreciated, please. Regards, Alan.

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'yum-security' plugin and fasttrack respository for CentOS 5.4
by Alan Bartlett 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

Yesterday evening (Tuesday December 8, 2009) a forum thread [1] was started by Stefan (under the ID of "gigglesworth") relating to the above subjects. As is well known, ELRepo provided the fasttrack packages during the lifetime of CentOS 5.3 but following on from Karanbir's assertion that CentOS will provide the fasttrack packages for 5.4 we, at ELRepo, have stepped down from providing that service. Will CentOS-devs please have a look at the above mentioned thread and then respond, accordingly, to the OP. Regards, Alan. [1] http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23695&forum=42

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Talk about existing forums
by Karanbir Singh 07 May '10

07 May '10

hi guys, One of the things that came up from the last chat about the language specific websites, was that there was no one on that call who actually used the forums. With the help of Akemi, I've been able to setup a meeting for the existing english forum moderators to come together and have a chat about: 1) what we have right now 2) Whats broken 3) whats really good 4) where they would like the forums to be in the next 6 months 5) Where they would like the forums to be in the next 12 months 6) The idea of 'English' as being just another language Its a bit short notice, but the meeting is setup to happen on Wednesday 9th Dec at 2300 UTC. Its the only time that worked for all concerned - in the next few weeks period. Apart from the existing forum moderators, anyone interested in the conversation is more than welcome to come along. Lets all sync up at 22:50 on #centos-devel(a)irc.freenode.net and take it from there. Also, lets try and timebox initial discussion to 40 min with a further 10 min after that to summarise and plan future actions. - KB

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Why are Spacewalk packages removed from CentOS?
by Miroslav Suchý 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi, severals users of Spacewalk [1] reported that Spacewalk client tools are removed [2] from CentOS (they are present in RHEL). It's about packages: rhn-check rhn-client-tools rhnlib rhnsd rhn-setup rhn-setup-gnome yum-rhn-plugin I dig up in history [3] and find that the reason was probably reference to rhn.redhat.com. Since current Spacewalk (default) configuration should not hit rhn.redhat.com I'm curious if those packages can be put back to CentOS? Or is some other reason behind removal of those packages? 1: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/ 2: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4#head-6dfcd9ddca9da991… 3: https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2008-July/msg00042.html -- Miroslav Suchy Red Hat Satellite Engineering Cloud Computing and Integrated Solution Dept.

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yum-3.2.22-23.el5.centos in c5-testing
by Karanbir Singh 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi, yum-3.2.22-23.el5.centos is now available in the c5-testing repo, please check / test and post feedback. This is the yum which will most likely be released along with 5.5 so its important we provide feedback at this stage, so as many issues as possible are ironed out before release. -- Karanbir Singh kbsingh(a)karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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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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Forum Thread -- Relating to the CentOS 5 Testing Repository
by Justin Albstmeijer 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, I hoped to use php-5.2 while keeping close to the centos packages (no external repositories). So I tried the packages from http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/RPMS/ . These packages seem to be compiled without mime-magic support (--without-mime-magic). The previous stable php-5.1.6 packages had this mime-magic support enabled. Any reason for this change? is there an add-on rpm packages supplying this support? Just tested php-5.2.10-1.el5.centos, with the same result. Justin

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selinux-policy-2.4.6-255.el5_4.4
by kfx 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, I hope I am on the good list to ask this, if not I apologize. 5 days ago, Upstream released an errata for the nasty bug that was introduced with selinux-policy-2.4.6-255.el5_4.3, which prevented postfix-driven systems from sending email. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0063.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555793#c1 I would like to know if the fixed selinux-policy rpm was in the process to be deployed for centos as the lack of it prevent me to update servers. I know that it's bad to ask :( but as Upstream say in the first time "oh you will have to wait for 5.5 for a clean fix", this bug is getting me anxious. Thanks for your work, kfx

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Forum Thread -- Relating to the CentOS 5 Testing Repository
by Michiel van Es 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, To come back to this thread: THe version that CentOS Testing is providing is a version from 2008: php-5.2.6-2.el5s2.i386.rpm 16-Sep-2008 01:20 1.2M http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/ The latest version from Red Hat is: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHWAS/SRPMS/ph… Is it possible the CentOS Testing PHP (and perhaps others) packages aren't up to date and people using the CentOS Testing repo have an outdated and vulnerable PHP version running? Kind regards, Michiel

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Alan Bartlett as forum moderator
by Phil Schaffner 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Developers and other luminaries, What's the status of getting Alan Bartlett activated as a forum moderator. We could really use the help. Thanks, Phil

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httpd from testing replace httpd.conf
by Paulo Martinez 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi all, while switching from [updates] httpd-2.2.3-31.el5.centos.2.src.rpm to [c5-testing] httpd-2.2.8-1.el5s2.centos.src.rpm i noticed that httpd.conf will be replaced. That should not be intentional? Comparing the spec-files shows [updates] %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/httpd/conf/httpd.conf [c5-testing] %config %{_sysconfdir}/httpd/conf/httpd.conf httpd-2.2.8-1.el5s2 is from RHWAS right? Regards PM

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What's the ftp password??
by JudahXIII 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Hi all: i installed php, apache, mysql on my CentOS. then i installed wordpress on localhost. when i upgraded a plugin, wordpress asked me to enter "hostname", "username" and "password". what's them? i tried mysql username and password, they didn't work. anyone can help me? thanks so much. -- Yours JudahXIII

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why is the addons repo empty?
by Felix Schwarz 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, today I noticed that yum-priorities is not anymore in the base distribution - a fact that seems to be well documented. However the yum-utils src rpm still builds that package. Therefore I was wondering why yum-priorities is available in extras and not in addons. Basically http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General says: > What are all the CentOS repositories (directories) and what is each one > for? > > addons > Contains packages required in order to build the main Distribution or > packages produced by SRPMS built in the main Distribution, but not included > in the main Red Hat package tree (mysql-server in CentOS-3.x falls into > this category). Packages contained in the addons repository should be > considered essentially a part of the core distribution, but may not be in > the main Red Hat Package tree. However the addons repo is completely empty for CentOS 5.4. Does that mean addons is deprecated? fs

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Re: [CentOS-devel] [CentOS-docs] Article on building i586 CentOS-5 kernel
by Timothy Lee 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

I've been held up by my work, but here is the continuation of the conversation regarding i586 CentOS-5: On 01/11/2010 08:18 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> * Can the changes mentioned in that article be incorporated into the >> stock SRPM? (As far as I know, non-i586 builds should not be >> affected) > No, but there is a big open door in the c5plus kernel window. That would > be the best place for this. > > However, expanding a bit ( and this conversation might be better for > -devel rather than -docs ). > > Is the modified kernel the the only bit of change you need for i586 > support ? I'd think a glibc.i586 might be worth doing as well. And there > were a few other packages that were required to be patched on c4 to make > it work for i586. How many of those are needed here as well ? And there > are a lot of patches in the kernel tree that might not impact the i586 > code at all. eg. whats the state of xen in this i586 kernel ? For my purpose, yes. The modified kernel and glibc.i386 and openssl.i386 are all I needed to get the system running from CF card. I'm not using the procps RPM, but using busybox instead. I never tested Xen support on the i586 kernel. The "CentOS5PentiumSupport" wiki doc mentioned that "-ffast-math" generated CMOV instructions in .i386 packages. That sounds more like a gcc bug. So instead of patching all the packages that enable "-ffast-math", patching gcc would be the ultimate solution. > If there is reasonable interest in running a i586 tree, then imho, a SIG > dedicated to this would be the best route to go. It would also make it > possible to have a i586 specific tree that can be maintained in parallel > to the main core distro. I can see that the amount of physical hardware available for testing i586 packages is limited, but I guess when CentOS-4 reaches EOL, some people might opt for a CentOS-5 upgrade path. Anyway, I'm happy to help out with any testing on physical hardware. When I do find the time, I'll try to look into the CMOV and gcc issue, but no promises there. One thing I'm not good at is organizing things, so I won't volunteer to initiate the SIG... Regards, Timothy Lee

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Forum Thread -- Relating to the CentOS 5 Testing Repository
by Alan Bartlett 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

There has been a recent forum thread [1] where the OP has asked about the C-5 Testing Repository and the php packages contained therein. When the time permits, would one of the core-devs please post a comment to that thread. Having defocussed my eyes, I mentally see an image of Tru, Johnny, Karanbir, Ralph or Russ checking the quoted URL . . . Regards, Alan. [1] http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24153&forum=42

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Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS-devel Digest, Vol 59, Issue 1
by User User 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

STOP

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reboots ahead
by Karanbir Singh 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

hi guys, just a quick note to say that there will be reboots on all *.dev.centos.org nodes ( including real machines ) but not on dev.centos.org itself. Reboots should happen during the day 7th Jan UTC. Given that this impacts so few people ( and everyone is here on this list ) I'm not sending this to the announce list. Questions, issues - come find us on #centos-devel(a)irc.freenode.net or just here in the mailing list. -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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