devel February 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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5.4 x86_64 tree is missing .treeinfo
by Cole Robinson 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi all, The CentOS 5.4 x86_64 tree seems to be missing a .treeinfo file: http://mirrors.tummy.com/mirrors/CentOS/5.4/os/x86_64/.treeinfo compared to http://mirrors.tummy.com/mirrors/CentOS/5.4/os/i386/.treeinfo This is useful info, as virt-install and virt-manager use this to detect the URL distro, which allows us to enable goodies like virtio for sufficiently new distros (5.4 included)*. - Cole * 5.4 detection isn't actually present in 5.4 virt-install, is available upstream.

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tb's on p.c.o
by Jerry Amundson 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

I'm seeing this when trying the Projects, eg. LiveCD, XFS, etc. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 406, in dispatch_request dispatcher.dispatch(req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 206, in dispatch req.hdf = HDFWrapper(loadpaths=chrome.get_all_templates_dirs()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/chrome.py", line 263, in get_all_templates_dirs dirs += provider.get_templates_dirs() File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 264, in get_templates_dirs File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 799, in resource_filename return get_provider(package_or_requirement).get_resource_filename( File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1229, in get_resource_filename return self._extract_resource(manager, zip_path) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1235, in _extract_resource last = self._extract_resource( File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1249, in _extract_resource real_path = manager.get_cache_path( File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 880, in get_cache_path self.extraction_error() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 846, in extraction_error raise err ExtractionError: Can't extract file(s) to egg cache The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the Python egg cache: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/.python-eggs' The Python egg cache directory is currently set to: /.python-eggs Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? You can change the cache directory by setting the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment variable to point to an accessible directory.

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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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unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API
by Andrey Ponomarenko 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Dear colleagues, Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS and the Linux Foundation have released a free unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API. It helps to quickly generate simple ("sanity" or "shallow"-quality) tests for all functions from the library API using their signatures and data type definitions straight from the library header files. The quality of generated tests allows to check absence of critical errors in simple use cases and can be improved by involving of highly reusable specialized types for the library. This tool can execute generated tests and detect all kinds of emitted signals, early program exits, program hanging and specified requirement failures. It can be considered as a tool for low-cost sanity checking of library API or as a powerful test development framework. Also it supports universal Template2Code format of tests, random test generation mode and other useful features. This tool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPLv2. We suppose this tool can be very useful for shared library developers and recommend it for including to Cent OS. For more information, please see: http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/API_Sanity_Autotest Andrey Ponomarenko Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS

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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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Call for Firefox 3.6.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 testers
by David Hrbáč 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi, I have made complete rebuild and backport of Firefox 3.6.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 to CentOS 5. Packages come with language packs, debuginfo packages, xulrunner etc. I'm looking for QA testers. Upgrade from distro versions works pretty fine. Thanks, David Hrbáč

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