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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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Latest podman installation broken in CentOS
by Praveen Kumar 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi, Looks like there might be issue with spec file of the podman for CentOS because of wrongly put the "Requires" version for *conmon* but this is what I am getting now when trying to install podman :( $ sudo yum install podman [...] --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: podman-0.5.3-7.gitc54b423.el7.x86_64 (virt7-container-common-candidate) Requires: conmon >= 2:1.10.0-3.gitb0f6d98 Installed: conmon-1.11.0-1.git55a3daa.el7.x86_64 (@virt7-container-common-candidate) conmon = 1.11.0-1.git55a3daa.el7 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest -- Praveen Kumar http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kumarpraveen http://fedoraproject.org/ http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com

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Status of Ansible within CentOS 7 and SIGs
by Thomas Oulevey 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hello Folks, Starting with CentOS 7.5, ansible package will no be available in CentOS -extras anymore as Red Hat decided to ship Ansible on a separate channel. Looking at ansible package in CBS [1] I see that Troy, Fabian, Sandro and Alan are rebuilding it. Can we get better at that task ? My proposal would to initiate a rebuild of the new Ansible channel[2](within the Config Management SIG) and follow a better release cycle. What do you think ? Would it be a solution from all SIG, or should we continue to ship Ansible within each SIG ? I would be happy to contribute the rebuild/debranding of existing source rpms (all available versions) if we all agree. Please note that EPEL is shipping again Ansible 2.5 as it was removed from Extras [3] -- Thomas Oulevey [1]: http://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1947 [2]: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/Ansible/SRPMS/ [3]: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13842

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__gthrw___pthread_key_create in devtoolset-6
by dacav 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hello good people I'm packaging for CentOS 7 a piece of proprietary software. The software is written in C++14, so I need to use the devtoolset to run it. Unfortunately I'm having some issues with linking of pthreads. First off I'm getting this warning: In file included from /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/gthr.h:148:0, from /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/ext/atomicity.h:35, from /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/ios_base.h:39, from /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/ios:42, from /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/ostream:38, from /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/iostream:39, from src/logd-main.cpp:23: /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/gthr-default.h:236:10: warning: 'int __gthrw___pthread_key_create(pthread_key_t*, void (*)(void*)) throw ()' used but never defined __gthrw2(__gthrw_(__pthread_key_create), …Where the problematic line is a `#include <iostream>`. Then of course it gets problematic upon linking time objs/intel-debug/src/logd-main.o:(.rodata+0x8): undefined reference to `__gthrw___pthread_key_create(unsigned int*, void (*)(void*))' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status I searched around on the Web: the classic suggestion (from stackoverflow and such) will be to check for the `-pthread` flag to be present at compilation. This is of course tackled already. Since the compilation is working in other contexts, I started to wonder if this is some known problem in CentOS + Devtoolset: did someone have similar issues? Perhaps there's something wrong in how I do the build. Is there in CentOS some software which is using Devtoolset which I could take as example for my build? Thanks in advance for any suggestion :)

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CentOS Dojo in Sao Paulo, late July
by Rich Bowen 30 May '18

30 May '18

Community member Leo Vaz is putting together a CentOS Dojo for a day or two before the upcoming OpenStack Days Brazil event, which is scheduled for July 27-28. Details for this event are coming together here: https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/SaoPaulo2018 If you are likely to be in the area during that time frame, and are interested in speaking at a CentOS event, please indicate your availability in the etherpad linked from the above page. Topics can be anything related to CentOS, or projects that build on top of CentOS such as the CentOS SIGs. If you have further questions, place contact Leo at leonardo.vaz(a)gmail.com -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @CentOSProject // @rbowen 859 351 9166

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CentOS community newsletter - Call for content
by Rich Bowen 29 May '18

29 May '18

As part of our community outreach effort, we are rebooting the 'CentOS Pulse' newsletter, which was discontinued about 8 years ago. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide a high-level update on what CentOS is up to, to the peripheral audience - including the tech press - who are less connected with the daily life of the project. If your SIG would like to provide an update, or if you have something else you'd like to share with this audience, please do so here: https://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/1801 , where I am drafting the newsletter. Or email me directly with what you'd like to put in there. We are targeting Tuesday, June 5th (generally, the first Tuesday of each month) for publication, so you have a few weeks. For historical context, you can read back-issues at https://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/ to see what these used to look like. -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @CentOSProject // @rbowen 859 351 9166

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steps to create efiboot.img in centos
by Veetil, Vyshnav 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hi , Can you please explain the steps to create the efiboot.img in centos. Thanks and Regards, Vyshnav

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