devel September 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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Interested in IA64 build.
by James A. Peltier 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I noticed on the SIG that people interested in other ports of interest. I'd like to express interest in the IA64 port. What is the best way to get started? I have two SGI Itanium 2 based machines. One 64 processor x 64GB SGI Altix and a 32 processor x 32GB RAM SGI Prism. They are currently running CentOS 4.8 and I would love to be able to run CentOS 5.5 on them to get them into compliance with the rest of the cluster. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html

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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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Artwork for C6
by Karanbir Singh 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi, with the EL6beta2 Refresh, I am going to guess that the rhel6 release isnt far - and one of the things that takes the longest to get sorted out in 'CentOS Lands' is the artwork components. It would be fantastic if we can get some of the centos-artwork packages into the testing repo's by the 15th Aug. So what all do we need in order to get there ? The components we need to start with are the gnome theme, *-artwork packages and *-logos packages. Can we also get a show of hands, on who all are working on these components ? Thanks - KB

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Updated nx/freenx packages
by Akemi Yagi 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

CentOS devs (perhaps Tru?), I have an updated version of nx/freenx ready. The srpms are: http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/5/SRPMS/freenx-0.7.3-6.el5.centos.… http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/5/SRPMS/nx-3.4.0-6.el5.centos.ay.s… Two tarballs (nxagent and nx-X11) in nx have been update to the current version (as of Sept 2010). One main change done in this update is addition of support for RHEL6(beta). For example, rpmbuild -bb --target x86_64 --define 'dist .el6.centos' --define "centos_ver 6" freenx.spec will build the x86_64 version of freenx for RHEL/CentOS-6. Anyone wishing to give them a try can find the binaries at: http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/i386/ http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/x86_64/ I have tested them against RHEL 6 beta2 and they seem to work fine. Thanks, Akemi

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Forums migration to phpbb
by Karanbir Singh 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Starting a new thread... So there are a few things that need to be done with the forums : - Workable data migration path from the existing forums setup to phpbb - setup a single authentication module with its own account creation / deletion / admin interface - Migrating the wiki, bugs and www site to use the same auth mechanism. Things already done : + phpbb install and tested migration ( I am guessing this based on Marcus's last email ) Looking at the list of things that need to be done, I dont need to be or want to be involved with any of them, but am happy to project-manage if that is something which is needed. So, who's offering to do what ? Step-1 might be to check and verify that wiki/bugs/www can be migrated to using the ldap auth setup proposed for phpbb. - KB

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Building or maintaining CentOS EUS releases
by carlopmart 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi all, Would it be possible to release CentOS EUS with their respective patches like upstream vendor does?? For example two releases or one release back: 5.4 and 5.3 or 5.4 only. Why? Because for example for important bugs detected on upstream 5.5 version like this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583218. This bug doesn't exists under 5.4 release, and IMHO, it is a very important bug (it is marked as urgent on upstream). I think it would be nice to have the possibility to choose between one version and another according to the problems that arise. Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Contact for Chinese work of centos.org ( AKA Lee Nathanael )
by Kevin Allen 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

hi Karanbir Singh and all, This is Lee Nathanael ever contacted you all through CentOS-devel mail list<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-August/003137.html> in 2008. Seemed too long time to contact you here becase of my busy work in Tanzania.I think it will be more helpful for the team to accept me after I gained two years experience of contributing work for other opensource software such as fedora, mybb and simplemahines. But I never forget CentOS, especially for regional site such as cn.centos.org. I hope that I could contact any one of your team member on MSN or any other IM again for my contribution work for regional site of CentOS.Thank you very much. I am looking forward to your coming. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. FYI: I am keeping online at #centos as id of nathanaellee My Contact Information: MY MSN kevinallen.us(a)msn.com My AIM kevinallen128 My Skype: kevinallen.us -- -- Yours Sincerely ----Kevin Allen

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Home page missing a link to the LiveCD for CentOS 5.
by Phil Schaffner 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

The Subject says it all. Phil

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PHP, OpenSSL and missing functions?
by Jason Gerfen 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello, new to this list and am not sure if this is the right one to post this question to but here it is... System specifications Linux hostname 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:09:06 EDT 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux CentOS-5.5 PHP 5.2.13 OpenSSL-0.9.8e According to the manual for PHP a function of PHP with SSL configured is http://php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-get-cipher-methods.php which is returning an error. PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function openssl_get_cipher_methods() According to phpinfo() it is installed and working properly. ... './configure' ... '--with-openssl' ... ... Loaded Modules ... mod_ssl ... ... openssl OpenSSL support enabled OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 Should I report this as a bug? Perhaps its available in the i386 distribution? -- Jason Gerfen jason.gerfen(a)gmail.com ~ tomorrow ain't promised so we live for today

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ltsp problem
by catchme_ani 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Dear Sir, I am using CentOS5.5 and in it i am install ltsp-4 (all packages.) After that i configure it with ltspcfg command. whole things are installed successfully. But some clients are showing the error message. PCI cards should be detected automatically. ISA cards cannot be detected. Please sir give the solution, in internet i have not gotten proper solution . Please help as soon as possible. Thanks & regards, Ani.

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Looking for input from EPEL
by Stephen John Smoogen 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Please forgive a possible repeat post. I did not see this in the archives so was not sure if it had gotten sent. With the differences between EL-6 architectures we are finding that we need to build things for PPC or i386 that Upstream x86_64 has. Due to people not wanting to have a different RPM spec file from upstream we will end up with an x86_64 package set too.. which as the good old Fat Controller would say "causes confusion and delay". So in order to satisfy various factions we are looking at add a COST to EPEL so that it would be higher than the default 1000 (say 1100). What I would like to know is if this would affect CentOS-6, SciLin-6 or other repos so that we can deal with it now versus later. [And as much as I would like to go with repotags.. that has been seen as a non-starter.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines

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json interface
by JohnS 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Not to mix up the prior thread "Looking for input from EPEL". On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:57 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > We are > already working towards having a public build queue that exposes a json > interface, so automating stuff around that should not be hard for anyone. --- Will there be a Public Query API for the json interface? Would you elaborate some more on it please as you say it will be a build queue. Is it workable at present (beta)? Sounds interesting, John

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