devel October 2016

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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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NFV SIG - update
by Dave Neary 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hi, There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the NFV SIG, and in the interest of keeping the momentum going, I would like to step aside as SIG char, and recommend that Tom Herbert take over. Tom has taken on the packaging and building of VPP and DPDK-accelerated OVS for OPNFV, and has been active in the SIG in recent weeks, and I think he will help add the structure that has been sorely lacking from me in recent months. I'm not sure what the process is for replacing a SIG chair - can someone let us know, please? Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338

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ATTN: OCaml 4.03 in Rawhide, could affect POWER, s/390, RHEL 7.4, CentOS 7.4
by Richard W.M. Jones 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

OCaml 4.03 has been out for a while. I'm intending to add it to Fedora Rawhide once a side tag has been created: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6486 This will require rebuilding every OCaml package, which I normally do using a script, but probably there will be manual rebuilds necessary too. A few issues that may affect people: (1) There is a new ppc backend upstream, and I intend to switch to this. For years we have maintained our own out-of-tree ppc64 & ppc64le backends. I want to switch to the upstream ppc backend (which supports, in theory, ppc 32 bit, ppc64 and ppc64le). However when I actually tried this I found it to be rather buggy, it couldn't even compile many basic OCaml packages. This time I intend to switch, and we'll deal with the bugs. (2) There is a new s/390x backend upstream. This should enable us to compile all s/390x packages as native code. It also means that all supported architectures (yes, even riscv64) will support native compilation for OCaml. (3) The real reason I'm doing this now is because partners have asked us to update the OCaml compiler in RHEL 7.4. This will be a binary ABI break -- it's unfortunately unavoidable -- and will require all OCaml-using programs to be recompiled, and of course that will affect CentOS and any other RHEL derivatives. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org

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CentOS Storage SIG meeting on Friday 28-Oct-2016 at 13:00 UTC
by Niels de Vos 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Hi all, We did not have a Storage SIG meeting for a while. Now we have interest from additional participants to join the SIG, so it would be good to have a chat again. The (old) time that was used did not seem practical for most attendees, so tomorrow we're planning to have the meeting a little earlier, namely at 13:00 UTC. run "date -d '13:00 UTC'" in your terminal to convert to $LOCALTIME The venue will be #centos-devel on Freenode :) The agenda will mostly be done ad-hoc, with at least the following topics: - roll call - current state of Ceph packaging and testing - current state of Gluster packaging and testing - plans for Samba inclusion - plans for Tendrl inclusion - any other business Thanks, Niels

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Cockpit in extras (114) - release 121 available
by Phil Wyett 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Hi, The version of cockpit in extras (114) is a little aged. Is a release of the fresh version 121 in the planning? Regards Phil -- Blog: https://philwyett-hemi.blogspot.co.uk/ GitLab: https://gitlab.com/philwyett_hemi/

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When will Centos support SUSE lrbd for high availability iSCSI gateways of Ceph RBD images
by iesool＠126.com 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hi all： I read their article about LIO using RBD iSCSI multiple gateway and path support for high availability iSCSI targets. SUSE, Fedora24, and RHEL7 already supports lrbd, but Centos do not. When will Centos support SUSE lrbd for high availability iSCSI gateways of Ceph RBD images？ iesool(a)126.com

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Last call for the CentOS Interlock at Paris, 9/10th Nov
by Karanbir Singh 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

hi I've got the last few open slots for the interlock - if you are a contributor to the project or any of the SIG, or involved in CentOS infra / community efforts, and would like to attend the Interlock - please get in touch asap. The Interlock is a 2 day event, where we hope to talk through our plans for the project into the next 12 - 18 months, and we want all the contributors and SIGs to participate in helping shape that. https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Interlock2016 for more details, Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Config Management Sig at Interlock
by Julien Pivotto 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Hi everyone I will join the CentOS Interlock. At that moment we can discuss about the SIG. It looks like we have enough traction in the community to get started with Ansible. I will start working on that in the coming days, with people who have showed interest. Let's also meet & talk during the Interlock! Thanks. -- (o- Julien Pivotto //\ Config Management SIG V_/_ https://frama.link/cfgmgmt

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