devel March 2011

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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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Why not a fusion between CentOS and SL?
by carlopmart 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Hi all, Please, first of all, I don't want to start a flame about this subject. I only wnat to know CentOS's developers point of view about this particular. Due to the delays that occurs in the release of new CentOS's versions and patches, and because CentOS developers involved in these tasks may not have sufficient time to devote to it (and also make if freely and spending their time), and I think that has been much talk about the whys for users and developers: - Why not a distribution fusion between Scientific Linux and CentOS? - Why not join efforts in the development of a single Enterprise Linux solid distribution based on RHEL? I repeat: I only want to know your point of view. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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I want to help
by Marian Marinov 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello, Just today I read in LWN( https://lwn.net/Articles/435744/ ) about the problems with CentOS. I want to offer hardware (build servers) and I also want to volunteer time for cleaning up packages. Is there a page giving some guidelines? How can I start helping ? I'm packaging my own software with RPM for more then an year now so I think I have the required knowledge. -- Best regards, Marian Marinov

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QA effort
by Jonas Larson 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi all, How can I help (if I can) to contribute to the fine distribution of Centos? //jonas larson

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Website v2 Meeting
by Andrea Veri 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

howdy guys, looks like we are stuck again with the renew/rebuild of the CentOS website and therefore I pinged Ralph the other day proposing a solution. We definitely *need* to move on :) I think the best way to start sorting things out would be to setup an IRC meeting anytime soon to organize our work, decide which content should stay and which one should go away, what are our next steps, who will take care of them and how etc. I live in a GMT+2 country and it would be great if we could handle this meeting in the evening, let's say 9.30-10pm in any day which is *not* friday/saturday/sunday. Next week, tuesday or wednesday at around 9.30-10pm would be fine for everyone? (for everyone I mean anyone interested in helping out and volunteering for the website v2 rebuild) The channel where the meeting will be held is still to be decided, but that's definitely not an issue at the moment. I am open to any change to the time/date, but please let's don't get everything stuck again. (1 month is gone with no activity on this side) cheers, Andrea

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Re: [CentOS-devel] QA effort
by Jonas Larson 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Hi Phil, On 03/28/2011 08:02 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > A good start would be a brief introduction with a description of your > background and capabilities, and a statement of how you would like to > contribute to CentOS. For QA testing - what platforms, applications, etc. I'm a system administrator/consultant working with linux and unix (well mostly linux these days :-) ). I have been working with linux since '99 and has worked with red hat ever since. I first installed redhat 5.2 and was hooked! Those days I only worked with HP-UX and linux was a step forward, to say the least. Over the years I have worked with red hat a lot, building custom CD's, auto-installing with PXE, kickstart, performance tuning applications and so on. I have done some programming (C and python) but don't consider myself a programmer. I have access to our lab with the x86_64 plattform. On the application side I'm not sure what is needed, I am open to suggestions! My main interest is in contributing and trying to keep centos as current as possible. Let me know if you need something more specific! Cheers, Jonas

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Re: [CentOS-devel] Upstream SRPMs
by Coy Hile 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:59:16 +0100 (CET) > From: Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> > > You can find these at: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/ > Thanks, Dag. Are the SRPMS for the updates published likewise? I'm mostly just curious. Having some idea of how this all works would be beneficial if I were to decide to contribute in the future. -Coy

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Re: [CentOS-devel] Polite Request
by Butch Whitby 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

hi Guys, > > This list is the centos-devel list, there are other lists like this > list. But*this* list is the list dedicated to development of CentOS. > Which means its not a list to talk about generic technical stuff that > does not directly have a relation to centos development, its also not a > list to discuss development issues with code and process that isnt > centos itself. Its not a place to announce stuff, its also not a place > to have social and 'in the old days...' or 'when i was young..' or > politics ( around open source, generic software, technology or otherwise ). > > Recently lots of fluff being posted here is just noise and really not > appropriate for this list. The end result is that most of the people > doing development work on CentOS are not reading this list anymore since > its all irrelevant and offtopic noise. > > Its not a good situation to be in, so a polite request from my side - > take it elsewhere. Lets try and maintain topic sanity here on this list > so we don't need to all go back to using private, focused and productive > lists; > > Thanks > > - KB I agree. I've been watching this list for updates on whats happening with the status of 5.6 and 6.0. About all I do at this point is scan over the digest to see if there is anything that ISN"T completely irrelevant to the intent of the list. Please take all non CentOS dev conversations elsewhere, and let those that are dev's concentrate on getting the work done rather than addressing unrelated fluff as KB has done here. Their dev's not gossip columnists. FWIW, yes I do consider my message unrelated, even though it's in support of the original intention of this list. -- Butch

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polite request
by Karanbir Singh 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

hi Guys, This list is the centos-devel list, there are other lists like this list. But *this* list is the list dedicated to development of CentOS. Which means its not a list to talk about generic technical stuff that does not directly have a relation to centos development, its also not a list to discuss development issues with code and process that isnt centos itself. Its not a place to announce stuff, its also not a place to have social and 'in the old days...' or 'when i was young..' or politics ( around open source, generic software, technology or otherwise ). Recently lots of fluff being posted here is just noise and really not appropriate for this list. The end result is that most of the people doing development work on CentOS are not reading this list anymore since its all irrelevant and offtopic noise. Its not a good situation to be in, so a polite request from my side - take it elsewhere. Lets try and maintain topic sanity here on this list so we don't need to all go back to using private, focused and productive lists; Thanks - KB

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SRPMS for RHEL releases and updates
by Coy Hile 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out. Thanks, -Coy

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