devel January 2017

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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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[Infra] - Pre-announced major outage for several services (please read)
by Fabian Arrotin 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Due to some reorganization at the DC/Cage level, we'll have to shutdown/move/reconfigure a big part of our hosted infra for the following services : - cbs.centos.org (Koji) - accounts.centos.org (auth backend) - ci.centos.org (jenkins-driven CI environment) We're working on a plan to minimize the downtime/reconfiguration part, but at first sight, due to the hardware move of the racks/recabling parts/etc, the announced downtime will be probably ~48h. What does that mean ? That during this window, nobody will be able to build/tests packages, nor be able to triggers automatically CI jobs (important). We don't have the final dates confirmed (yet) but it seems that the migration will be scheduled for March 14th. We'll keep you informed when we'll have confirmation about those dates. Feel free to answer in this thread, or find us in #centos-devel on freenode. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab

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Ceph status update in the storage SIG
by David Moreau Simard 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi centos-devel, François Cami posted in December, seeking help to maintain the Ceph packages within the Storage SIG intiative [1]. With this, we've got reinforcements -- the new members of the storage SIG for Ceph packaging are: - David Moreau Simard - Giulio Fidente - Thomas Oulevey We've already begun kicking the tires and tagged Ceph Jewel 10.2.3 for release (which had been in testing since September). Ceph Jewel 10.2.5 has been built and will likely be tagged to -testing after some initial testing. We're also in the process of updating Ceph Hammer from 0.94.6 to 0.94.9, although note that we're beyond the scheduled EOL territory for Hammer [2]. It does not seem Hammer is officially EOL yet, I'll reach out to upstream for details. After Jewel and Hammer are both up to date and released, we will consider if we have the necessary resources to handle Kraken or if we'd prefer holding out for the next LTS release. Also, one more thing to note is that we are moving away from maintaining our own dist-git repositories in favor of rebuilding straight from upstream source RPMs and have updated the github repository accordingly [3]. Please let us know if you have any questions ! David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] [1]: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2016-December/015479.html [2]: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/releases/ [3]: https://github.com/CentOS-Storage-SIG/ceph/commit/2bc50feffe2683e90ac59d839…

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[POSTPONED] 2017-01-31 cbs.centos.org infrastructure upgrade.
by Thomas Oulevey 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Dear All, Please note that next Tuesday cbs.centos.org intervention will be postponed due to some issue with the upgrade process I didn't catch earlier with alternative arch builders. We will announce a new time slot as soon as possible. -- Thomas on behalf of the infrastructure team.

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weird (non-functional) downgrade
by lejeczek 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

dear devel is this true that every rpm downgrade goes kind of a ... "haywire" ? I've tried a few and... ~]$ yum downgrade ctdb --> Running transaction check ---> Package ctdb.x86_64 0:4.4.4-9.el7 will be a downgrade --> Processing Dependency: samba-client-libs = 4.4.4-9.el7 for package: ctdb-4.4.4-9.el7.x86_64 ---> Package ctdb.x86_64 0:4.4.4-12.el7_3 will be erased --> Running transaction check ---> Package samba-client-libs.i686 0:4.4.4-9.el7 will be installed <= ????? ~]$ yum downgrade bind Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package bind.x86_64 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3 will be a downgrade --> Processing Dependency: bind-libs = 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3 for package: 32:bind-9.9.4-38.el7_3.x86_64 ---> Package bind.x86_64 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.1 will be erased --> Running transaction check ---> Package bind.x86_64 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.1 will be erased ---> Package bind-libs.i686 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3 will be installed <= ???? etc. and system has no signle 686 rpm. Some kind of a curse my boxes suffer from? :) b.w. L.

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"7" still points to 7.2.1511 on vault.centos.org
by Evgeniy Ivanov 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hi Folks, Will 7.3 be updated? There are no cloud packages Thanks On 01/17/2017 12:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/16/2017 08:47 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I received an email about the inability to download the current kernel >> sources from our Vagrant images: >> >> % yumdownloader --source kernel >> ... >> No source RPM found for kernel-3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 >> No source RPM found for kernel-3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 >> >> I think this is caused by vault.centos.org, not by our Vagrant images: I >> can see centos-release-7-2.1511.el7.centos.2.10.x86_64.rpm under >> http://vault.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ - perhaps the "7" >> symlink hasn't been switched to 7.3.1611 yet? "6" points to 6.8 >> packages, the current release in the 6.x series. >> > > fixed for centos/7/ > NOTE: Fixed on the master server, will take time to propagate > we need a few more things in altarch/7/ before I can fix that one. -- Best Regards, Evgeniy Ivanov

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How should a SIG setup dependencies on Ansible
by Niels de Vos 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hi, In the Storage SIG we have several tools that depend on Ansible. What would be the best approach to make the Ansible packages available for users that want to install these tools? For a concrete example, the gdeploy tool for Gluster can automate installation and configuration of Gluster and integrated projects (like Samba and NFS-Ganesha) through a simple configuration file. Internally gdeploy generates Ansible playbooks and can run them. Lets assume we put gdeploy in a YUM repository from the Storage SIG. Because gdeploy depends on Ansible, we either need to: a. tag/sign/push some Ansible package from the CBS in the Storage SIG b. add a dependency on centos-release-<ansible?> in the centos-release-gluster package (which c-r-ansible?) c. something else (please specify) My preference would be to go with (b). I do not really want to care about the Ansible packages and their updates. It would be easier for me to have the SIG providing Ansible take care of that. Thanks, Niels

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