devel April 2012

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ksplice and CentOS
by Karanbir Singh 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

hi guys, lots of people on this list are keen on contributing to the CentOS effort - and one place where we could, as a group of people, make a massive difference is being able to deliver a ksplice upgrade model. A couple of people have started in silo's to try and get something together but I feel it might be a good time to try and see if we can do somethng as a group. Do we have people on the list who find the idea of rebootless kernel upgrades interesting ? Is there some desire to try and make that happen within the CentOS Ecosystem ? - KB

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anaconda dependency calculation?
by Nicholas Byrne 04 Aug '25

04 Aug '25

Hi all, I'm trying to find a tool that calculates all dependencies for a specific package or group of packages for use with CentOS 5 (beta) with the intention of putting together a custom single CD build of CentOS 5. With CentOS 4 i used a python script that used the hdrlist module to find all dependencies which borrowed code from a number of sources. I've looked at yumdownloader and how it checks dependencies (using the --resolve option) but if i pass it the list of packages defined in say the Base and the Core yum groups which generally form an absolute minimal install i end up with about 200 packages. If i do a custom install (using beta 1 disks) and deselect everything i end up with over 300 packages. So i'm guessing anaconda calculates dependencies in a slightly different way, can anyone point me to files/code where i should be looking to find out? Thanks very much in advance for help Nick This e-mail is the property of Quadriga Worldwide Ltd, intended for the addressee only and confidential. Any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from Quadriga may be monitored. Quadriga cannot guarantee any message delivery method is secure or error-free. Information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. We do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in this message and/or attachment that arise as a result of transmission. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Quadriga.

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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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How to handle kABI when patching kernel
by Mike Schmidt 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hi, I've generated (via rpmbuild) a patched version of the latest CentoS 6.2 kernel (2.6.32-220.7.1) with the imq patchset ( http://www.linuximq.net/patches.html) but this causes the kABI to break. What can orshould I do about this, if anything? What kinds of changes cause the kABI to break? Would it be reasonable to think I might be able to fix the patch to be kABI compliant? Is the kABI for CentOS the same as the one for the upstream RHEL version? Should I try to patch the kABI (as Oracle does in their unbreakable linux kernel)? What would be the procedure foir this? I understand you can't help me with the patches or the kernel itself, but I was hoping you might help me understand the kABI well enough that I can handle things for there. Thanks very much. -- *Mike SCHMIDT **CTO Intello Technologies Inc. **mike.schmidt(a)intello.com* *Canada: 1-888-404-6261 x320 USA: 1-888-404-6268 x320 Mobile: 514-409-6898 www.intello.com* * *

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hi
by milad nasr 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

hi all we installed a centos linux with special packages and config i want to if there is any way to make installable linux iso from that linux with all config and packages something such as rocks or ... sorry for my english tnx

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Source RPMs on vault
by Chris "ク" Heath 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi, I noticed that there are source RPMs missing from the vault for both C5 and C6: * http://vault.centos.org/5.8/updates/SRPMS/ (last updated April 3), and * http://vault.centos.org/6.2/updates/Source/SPackages/ (last updated April 9) Did something break in the automated build process? Chris

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How Centos compiles SRPMs from Red Hat
by Peter Penzov 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi, I'm interested how Centos Team changes and compiles SRPMs from Red Hat? Do you have a public manual which describes the process of compilation and building Centos? I suppose that this information is not private. Can you give me a more information about that? Best wishes Peter

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source rpms for z-stream
by Florian La Roche 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hello, anyone knows if Red Hat is pushing out source rpms for 4.y.z releases only or if the same will be done for RHEL5 and RHEL6 as well? Having all source rpms released would be a good step for CentOS and co, but maybe this is only done for the the discontinued RHEL4? By the way: ftp.redhat.com has rsync enabled for some time now, so having mirrors of it is much more convenient than in the past. best regards, Florian La Roche rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4Desktop-4.5.z" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4Desktop-LACD" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4Desktop" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4ES-4.5.z" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4ES-4.7.z-cluster" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4ES-4.7.z" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4ES-LACD" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4ES" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4WS-4.5.z" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4WS-LACD" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/enterprise/4WS" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/ftp.redhat.com/updates/rhn" (in download) failed: Permission denied (13) IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion

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