devel March 2018

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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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SRPMS for AltArch (more specifically aarch64 kernel)
by Dominique Martinet 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi folks, I've asked on IRC and have been pointed to this list. I can't seem to find this particular source rpm: kernel-aarch64-4.5.0-29.el7.src.rpm which is what is pointed by `rpm -qi kernel` on my system. Are these supposed to be available anywhere? Looking on google I only see one for an older release in someone's centos user/people page, but I can't seem to find these in any repo. The debuginfo are properly here but it's good to have sources as well when messing around with low level stuff :) Cheers and thanks for the hard work, -- Dominique Martinet

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Notes from CERN pre-dojo
by Rich Bowen 23 May '18

23 May '18

The notes from the pre-dojo meeting at CERN, yesterday, may be found in the etherpad at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/cern-centos-thursday Those involved in the various discussion topics are requested to elaborate, where appropriate. Thanks to everyone who attended this very productive discussion. --Rich -- -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @rbowen // @rdocommunity // @CentOSProject 859 351 9166

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URLs in centos-release-<sig> packages: /altarch vs. /centos/
by Brian Stinson 13 May '18

13 May '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, Now that we have SIG Content in the /altarch directories for CentOS 7 on the mirrors, we need to come with some requirements and recommendations for dealing with the different locations. tl;dr The current thinking is to add the following snippet in the %post of centos-release and release to all of the arches. This will set a yum var to the correct content location when a new system gets installed: `uname -m | grep -q 'x86_64' && echo 'centos' >/etc/yum/vars/contentdir || echo 'altarch' >/etc/yum/vars/contentdir` Here's the start of a proposal from the SIG perspective ## Requirements: - - The same noarch binary RPM *must* be distributable to the Extras repo for each architecture - - The centos-release-<SIG> packages *must* require centos-release ## New Recommendations for creating a centos-release file: - - A yum variable called 'contentdir' will be populated with the toplevel directory for SIGs to use 1.) Modify baseurls in the SIG repo files to look like the following (using openstack-queens as an example): [centos-openstack-queens] name=CentOS-7 - OpenStack queens baseurl=https://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/cloud/$basearch/openstack-que… gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Cloud exclude=sip,PyQt4 ## Discussion I'd like to hear thoughts, additions, and subtractions here before we update the SIGGuide and rework centos-release. Cheers! - -- Brian Stinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJanjEMAAoJEIMGvNKzCweMR6oQAMbsKqvJcfKW1+5yHsbEV33d QAAMwjEcKfZ+v9ypejErbPPh5RhuNCoRFFHUDAn4hBJNo2zb0YC0vKZJF3RIPIkV 9GAOwnnrWIvFJbeZ7sY4POMa/50IJXC3N8CeiW2XonDtf58rXZPsXM9/9JN9xCv7 X39FAIufCYA7rmedta236NMAutiEolyDFKWWJN6kwDzhm4p7BT9UVSyf7sWCBDzx t+TuCo7LZei4iwQWho1YL/9jbm0YP6EEyL3jJ/YT68cE8q9Mqd8qiE0gEMy0Eoof FuGNOLMrFhsvg3jNQr5DkbToDU+VwO3B+YVR29pTrd0Gf8bodmGTH31eCEljlhjg uPlms2cDvkaXlJmjO6XHM0D2cxmlTzBfVG7YrRwlD40JSk1Z3iyPyLkWJ967oyVM 9mmkhv4spNCX4okQlNI737bULwcxILM6ks3oCdO4i4Yk8BbZp/iwrJ9jcxr7U5YT Cvq2SuV5EbcXlxnhmMd/V6+F/VkgKqi0xrltKURlVUk+JzabHTw5zGwcRjnHxUQR nz2YiQ0mdR/pPuGyXl6xOqXl+M6khPBdCk4FHHdrZYw6aijo8FHzR1DYc63m4ibf Pkad1V9Awetuz0YwewgTp3MviRlklQte8jXMV/1Nh0TTp8xIs5e4ISNBwD3EtINL oqQYqpSGC0jkrwXD5fRG =F1Fp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Artwork] Is the Artwork SIG alive?
by Rich Bowen 03 May '18

03 May '18

I've been working through the various SIGs, trying to determine which ones are active. I'm curious about the state of the Artwork SIG. https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Artwork Is this still an ongoing effort, or is it "done"? -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @RDOcommunity // @CentOSProject // @rbowen

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LinchPin v1.5.1 (update) has been released
by Clint Savage 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

We are happy to announce that LinchPin v1.5.1 has been released. This release has the following updates: * The command line shell now enables ansible verbose output (#456) * Made the uHash optional for instances and inventory files (#458) * Adjusted the default location of the RunDB to the workspace (#458) * General cleanup (#461) * Update the README * Remove references to outdated documentation. * Remove unused schemas and documentation. * Fixed documentation example links (#453) * Make generating resources optional (#462) * Additional libvirt updates (#464) * Add detail about libvirt and image copying rights to Provider doc * Libvirt supports 'become' functionality as an unprivileged user * Additional Documentation improvements to Getting Started Guide (#464) * Updated `mkvirtualenv` docs to point out the ``-p`` switch for newer distros with Python 3.x installed * Made aws topology option `keypair` optional (#466) The official release notes are available at https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.5.1 This update is available via PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/linchpin If you discover any errors or regressions, please open a Github issue ( https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues) Cheers and enjoy! Clint Savage LinchPin Maintainer Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat twitter: @herlo, github: herlo, IRC: herlo, #linchpin

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Disabled weekly scanning in CentOS Container Pipeline for this weekend
by Dharmit Shah 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Hi, We've not been able to push the fixes for weekly scanning process in CentOS Container Pipeline to prod environment. Hence, we've disabled it for this weekend. Apologies for the inconvenience. Regards, Dharmit -- Dharmit Shah Red Hat Developer Tools (https://developers.redhat.com/) irc, mattermost: dharmit

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no mirrorlist in centos-release-scl* on el6
by BC 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

centos-release-scl-rh-2-3.el6.centos.noarch and centos-release-scl-7-3.el6.centos.noarch both list only a baseurl, not a mirrorlist even though this appears to be mirrored in several places. Is this an oversight?

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