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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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Is C6 QA Sign-off going to occur today?
by Ljubomir Ljubojevic 02 Jul '11

02 Jul '11

Hi. Today is supposed to be QA Sign-off for CentOS 6.0. Is this going to happen or are there remaining show-stoppers? Ljubomir

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CentOS-[56] Continous Release
by Karanbir Singh 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

hi, Johnny and I spoke about this a few days back and we think the best way to solve the problem around delayed srpms + waiting for isos, build and QA at the time of a point release is to get something like a 'Continous Release' repository going. The Problem: At a point release stage, users dont get updates till such time as the ISOS are ready ( eg. during the 5.6 release process ), the updates are built, QA has had time to verify content and the mirrors sync up. For new installs, this isnt an issue; however for people with existing installs this can potentially expose their installations. One solution: Export packages as they are built from the c[456]bsys into a repository that people can opt into, that would allow them to get early access to packages. Couple of notes: - it would have to be opt-in, rather than default for everyone - packages into the CR repo's will not be announced via the regular channels; the announcements will still only happen when rpms are visible in the os/ and updates/ repos. - it will not mean a lesser or a worse quality of builds, we hope to have enough automation in place that rpms will only be released into this repo once we are sure that it meets the release requirements. - this repository will run off centos.org machines initially, and will not be released to third party mirrors. The exact details of how the release-to-external-mirrors takes place, and how we manage the issues around that would be a conversation we can relegate into the future for now. - the CR repos will go-away once rpms are released in the regular process, it will not transfer into a rolling release type repo. At this stage, we are looking for comments as we prep for future release process. - KB

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Ask for the centos package review process
by Regis Perdreau 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hi, i m looking for a complete package review process. I have only found Le 22 juin 2011 18:27, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> a écrit : > On 6/22/2011 4:17 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> >>> I'd expect it to be common for the kernels and probably glibc's included with a >>> point release or soon thereafter to include security fixes. If you push those, >>> you have the biggest risk of affecting everything else - so what's the point of >>> isolating the rest? >>> >> All I can see is you pushing extreme case scenario on something that is >> good will of the devs to lower aggravation of people waiting for point >> release to be completed, with agenda to push for 2-days delay between >> upstream and CentOS point releases, knowing it can not physically >> happen. It's like watching my 2-years old nephew screaming for his >> bottle of milk even tho he can see his mother pouring it just in front >> of him. > >> The packages that **can** be released faster *will* be released faster, >> those that could brake things will be held back, it is simple as that, >> at least in my book. > > It's speculation at this point, but I think security fixes in the kernel > and major libs are to be expected instead of being some extreme case, > and those are precisely the most likely things that would cause > something to break if done incorrectly. The point of planning the early > release concept in the first place should be to get these fixes out to > the people who otherwise become targets of well-known exploits and > rootkits. Assume, for example, that another flaw is found in php or a > web app that allows remote command execution, and another glibc flaw > like the one recently fixed that allowed root escalation if you could > make a symlink to a suid file. Now assume that the fixes for these > vulnerabilities comes in or immediately after the point release. That > scenario seems normal, expected, and what the early release planning > should be all about instead of holding these back until a working > ananconda and iso layout is ready and tested. > >> I will even dare to speculate that main reason for people to opt-in for >> CR repo will be so they can see how many packages are finished and to >> see packages coming out so they do not freak out without a visible >> progress. Side affect will be that some of them will be able to busy >> them selfs with comparing against upstream packages. > > I think this is unlikely - unless they are unaware of the pending > security issues, don't watch the news, and never look at their logs - or > don't have an internet connection. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell(a)gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel

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Variants and packages in Upstream
by Karanbir Singh 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi guys, Wonder if someone can confirm that in EL6 : <any varient> + <optionals> = entire distro tree. eg. does <server> + <optional> get you the entire tree; and is that the same as <desktop> + <optional> and <workstation> + <optional> or are there packages specific to a variant and not available to any other variant ? I'm using 'variant' to broadly imply 'product'. - KB

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Test result for CentOS-6 LiveCD
by Athmane Madjoudj 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hello, I ran some tests on CentOS-6 LiveCD using Patrice's livecd-creator rpms and Fedora's one, also I'll be very glad if someone can approve my qaweb account (username: athmane) so I'll be able to update LiveCD ticket instead of posting here. Kickstart: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/browser/trunk/CentOS6/rhel6beta-liv… Tests 1: Live CD compose on fedora 15 host : PASSED ISO size < 700M : PASSED Booting with the composed ISO : FAILED | unable to mount root fs Live image installation : N/A Booting the installed system : N/A Basic testing (Network, yum etc...): N/A Tests 2: Live CD compose on rhel 6.0 host : PASSED ISO size < 700M : PASSED Booting with the composed ISO : PASSED Live image installation : PASSED Booting the installed system : PASSED Basic testing (Network, yum etc...): PASSED -- Athmane Madjoudj

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million-dollar question....
by Matthew Miller 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

So, is this on schedule: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/62 6.0 Begin Sync to Internal Mirrors Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 (All day) ? -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>

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athentication service
by nabi 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi, there I'm new in Cent-OS.I installed pptpd as a VPN service and now i need a simple application that can be my authentication server with some basic abilities like account expiration period, account timing and so on. I did some Google search and find freeradius but it was too complicated for me to setup and use it.please help me to find a way to do that. regards all. nabi

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Status of CentOS 5 for the i586?
by Cody Jackson 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi all; What's the status of the CentOS 5 for the i586 project? http://wiki.centos.org/Projects/CentOS5PentiumSupport I was experimenting with my AMD K6-II machine today. By following the notes at http://wiki.centos.org/TimothyLee/centos5_i586_patch and the link above, I managed to compile an i586 kernel and deploy it on the K6 machine, which is now running C5 happily behind me with about 76MB of RAM. I wrote down the steps I took and the problems I encountered, which I need to organize a bit. Is this information useful in any way? I know the K6 is *practically* dead, but I'm sure there's a few diehards using it still. (Maybe three or four?) I'll be playing around with this machine a little more and experimenting. It was a great learning experience. Cheers, Cody Jackson

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