November 2019 - devel - lists.centos.org

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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Unshipped -devel packages in CentOS Linux
by Brian Stinson 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Hi Folks, We're gearing up to build the next minor release of CentOS Linux 8 so I thought now would be a good time to revisit the conversation we've been having about what to do with unshipped -devel packages. Just a reminder on a few guiding principles: - The BaseOS, AppStream, and PowerTools repos in CentOS Linux are designed and composed to match Upstream as closely as possible, both in content and behavior - Unshipped devel packages have no defined maintenance lifecycle in Upstream, and especially not in CentOS - We know that some of these devel packages are essential to build applications that the CentOS (and probably EPEL) communities care about. The problems we need to solve if we decide to ship these packages somewhere in a CentOS artifact: - Communicate that these packages are provided as-is and are not meant for runtime dependencies - Provide the packages in a form that is consumable for individuals and the EPEL community I'd like to propose that we create a separate repository, disabled by default that is composed of the -devel packages that we care about, bundled in a module. The name of this repository and the module is up for discussion, but I would like the naming to help with the communication that these are not for general consumption. I'd also like to discuss how we populate this repo/module. It would be easiest to just dump every unshipped package in and move on, but that doesn't help us track which of these packages are truly important outside of building the distro. Shipping *everything* also represents a larger content set to manage if lifecycle issues come up in the future. An alternative would be to store this definition in git (we'll need to do that anyways), and allow folks to make pull requests to include new content, shipping this as a separate repo would let us spin updates on demand. Looking forward to the discussion! -- Brian Stinson CentOS Infra Team

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CentOS 8 Artwork needed
by Rich Bowen 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

To all the artists and designers here, we need your help. With RHEL 8 beta released, we need to start producing artwork for CentOS 8. It's time for the CentOS Artwork SIG, and anyone else that's interested in contributing to this effort, to start working on everything that will be needed for the new release. What we know we need is anaconda artwork, and new desktop backgrounds to replace the current '7' themed stuff. As we dig, we may find more things that need to be updated to the new 8 theme. Additionally, we will need to update some of the assets listed here: https://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Identity ... and produce new assets for 8 to be listed here: https://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Brand/Logo And, finally, we need someone to step up to lead this effort. While we don't yet know for certain when RHEL 8 will officially release, it's safe to assume that it's soon, and we need your help. -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @CentOSProject // @rbowen 859 351 9166

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C8 updates / CentOS-announce
by Leon Fauster 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Do package updates for C8 get announced via centos-announce list? If not whats the new communication "channel"? I see updates but no corresponding announcement ... -- Leon

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Re: [CentOS-devel] Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors 2019-11-13 Meeting
by Patrick Laimbock 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Hi Karsten, Thank you for the update. > Topics covered in the meeting and via email are discussed below, and > remain open on the Board’s rolling agenda for future conversation and > actions: > > 1. Board membership: > 1. The Board has been considering for some time adjusting the > membership of the Board, in particular by adding new Directors. > Discussions with potential new Directors will begin. That's great news. Will the process be similar to how it's done in the Fedora Project [1]? So with a public list of nominees, published interview with each nominee and public voting results? Is there a way for the Community to (self-)nominate? For better Community coverage perhaps CentOS Board related postings could also be sent to the centos-announce and centos mailinglists? Thanks, Patrick [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/program_management/elections/

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Re: [CentOS-devel] missing src.rpm for updated centos 8 kernels?
by Patrick Laimbock 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

Hi, -----Original message----- > Hi all, > > Latest (at this time) kernel for Centos 8 is kernel-4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0. > I am unable to find the .src.rpm for this kernel anywhere in Centos repositories. > > I looked in: > http://vault.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/ > http://mirror.nsc.liu.se/centos-store/centos/8/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/ > > Source package link on centos.pgks.org is also dead: > https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-baseos-x86_64/kernel-4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.… > > Where can I find the src.rpm for this kernel? Source packages are available on http://vault.centos.org Best, Patrick

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Reasoning behind RHEL8 packages without corresponding -devel?
by Anthony Alba 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

(Of course, we should be asking RH... but nevertheless) EPEL 8 has several issues regarding packages without corresponding -devel. E.g., libXvMC, libbluray. I see that this causes grief for EPEL 8 and collateral damage to RPMFusion. Did RH disclose the reason for this? Was there any discussion on where CentOS will put them, like in Extras perhaps? (I was rolling out some testing VMs in RHEL8 and OL8, and noticed the new but "unsupported" CodeReady repos with -devel packages; yet not all -devels are them.) Cheers Anthony

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CentOS 8 docker images
by Lance Albertson 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

When can we expect docker images with CentOS 8? I see there's already an issue [1] open for it. Is there anything we can do to help make it happen? Thanks! [1] https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-images/issues/151 -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

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CPE Weekly: 2019-11-29
by Aoife Moloney 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Hi everyone, Welcome to the CPE team weekly project update mail! Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. For better communication, we will be giving weekly reports to the CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being done. Also for better communication between our groups we have created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists with context here. Note: This document is currently built from individual reports rolled into a google document which we edit and copy into a final document. We are aware that this causes problems with some email readers, and are working on a method to make this less problematic. High Level Project Updates: CentOS: The team have been testing projects migration from repospanner to locally hosted git repositores on git.dev.centos.org and come back with a migration script/plan to unblock RCM CentOS Stream Scoping meetings are still ongoing Fedora: Rawhide Gating: Bodhi was 5.1 released and is deployed in staging Robosignatory is broken in staging preventing testing much there Application Retirements Elections Elections being moved to Communishift really soon! Stay tuned! Fedocal Still no progress on kanban board last four weeks https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/fedora-calendar/kanban Jlanda is still hitting permission error in communishift https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274 Still working on running local instance Nuancier Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication A PR will be created on Github to test if we can see the progress New PR from sebwoj - Porting to Fedora messaging is under review Pastebin Still on track for December 1 modernpaste shutdown GDPR and privacy centric conversations with respect to application handovers have resulted in…..more conversations needed - shock :) Misc Bugzilla sync script has been resolved Email inviting to review its change has been sent New changes to src.fedoraproject.org deployed: Ability to set the anitya monitoring status directly in the UI Ability to adopt orphan (and not retired) packages directly in the UI New changes to Pagure on the horizon: New API endpoint to enable/disable git hooks Ability to set dist-git in the default assignee overrides for bugzilla EPEL 8 modularity Updates can now be created in bodhi staging! We are currently testing pushes/composes We are also testing epel8-playground-modules composes Aarch64 is now racked and networked Koji New koji owner script was debugged Koji client was updated Koji was also patched for the --title option fix Configured migrations from Ansible/Jinja template https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/1 https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/3 https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/11 https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/14 https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/pull-request/16 Various Resolved Issues https://pagure.io/mdapi/pull-request/91 https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/3782 Comments? Suggestions? Feedback? Let Us Know! Have a great weekend! Aoife -- Aoife Moloney Feature Driver Community Platform Engineering Team Red Hat EMEA Communications House Cork Road Waterford

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Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors 2019-11-13 Meeting
by Karsten Wade 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

From https://blog.centos.org/2019/11/minutes-for-centos-board-of-directors-2019-…: Public minutes On 2019-11-13 theCentOS Board of Directors <https://centos.org/about/governance/>held their first meeting following the release of CentOS Linux 8 and announcement of CentOS Stream. As covered in this meeting, the CentOS Board are taking on an initiative to increase transparency of the working of the Board. This set of minutes for the community and wider public is the first instance of new, more transparent processes in action. Topics covered in the meeting and via email are discussed below, and remain open on the Board’s rolling agenda for future conversation and actions: 1. Board membership: 1. The Board has been considering for some time adjusting the membership of the Board, in particular by adding new Directors. Discussions with potential new Directors will begin. 2. All Directors discussed the need for future leadership of the CentOS Project to continue being able to straddle the project’s traditional footing on one side, and help drive a vision for the future on the other side. 2. Transparency initiatives: 1. All agree that the biggest need for transparency in the Project is at the Board level. 1. Other groups e.g. SIGs are generally following good transparency practices 2. Board Directors have been asked directly about this topic and the issue of the Board not releasing minutes from meetings. 3. The Board’s infrequent meetings have not been configured to easily generate public topics, since most technical and day-to-day leadership happens in the SIGs especially the Core SIG and QA SIG. 2. Next step -- improving Board meeting norms: 1. *AGREED:*Publish (for next and future meetings) that there will be a meeting, and what the public portion of the agenda is, in advance of the meeting. 2. *AGREED:*Publish a set of public minutes within 72 hours of the conclusion of a Board meeting 3. *AGREED:*There will be a rolling element to the agenda so that items are not dropped between meetings but rather eventually addressed/resolved. 4. *ACTION*: Karsten to write and publish this set of public meeting minutes 3. New branding work underway - Karsten briefed the Board on the community efforts to consider the CentOS brand, logo, and overall branding in light of the addition of CentOS Stream. 1. https://git.centos.org/centos/Artwork/issue/1 2. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2019-November/018098.html 3. *AGREED*: Board more actively drive approving/rejecting design ideas. 4. *AGREED*: There will be a reasonable time for discussion around the potential brand changes, and the Board will ensure the discussion concludes in a timely manner. -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://theopensourceway.org gpg: AD0E0C41 | https://red.ht/sig

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FINAL call for content, FOSDEM CentOS Dojo
by Rich Bowen 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Ok, folks, last call for content for the FOSDEM CentOS Dojo, January 31 in Brussels. https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2020 Note that as of right now, I'm going to have to cancel one of the two rooms for the event, because we don't have enough content. So please submit your proposals about the interesting things you're doing on CentOS, so that we can put together another awesome event. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @CentOSProject // @rbowen 859 351 9166

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CentOS 8.1 build progress page?
by Sandro Bonazzola 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hi, is there any page like https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 we can monitor for getting updates on CentOS 8.1 build? Within oVirt project we are trying to plan for our 4.4 beta and since it requires a few stuff that are only in 8.1 we'd like to align our schedule to it. Thanks, -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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CPE Weekly: 2019-11-22
by Aoife Moloney 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to the CPE team weekly project update mail! Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. For better communication, we will be giving weekly reports to the CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being done. Also for better communication between our groups we have created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists with context here. Note: This document is currently built from individual reports rolled into a google document which we edit and copy into a final document. We are aware that this causes problems with some email readers, and are working on a method to make this less problematic. High Level Project Updates: CentOS: The team have been testing migrating away from Repospanner Wrote a PoC migration script (taking care also of requests/tickets/forks repositories) RCM confirmed that it works Next step is testing on https://git.stg.centos.org and we hope to have an ETA on a migration time soon CentOS Stream Scoping meetings are ongoing Fedora: F31 Upgrades & Reinstallations Updated s390x buildvm’ Updated buildvmhost-s390x-01 Updated ppc9-01 to f31 and all guests to f31, added on bug about qemu in f31 on ppc64le not being able to do pseries-4.1 guests (the default), switched to pseries-4.0. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1769600 Re-installed buildvm-aarch64-01/02/03 and buildvm-armv7-01/02/03 with f31 and worked though issues with composes on them. Rawhide Gating: Bodhi 5.0 has been deployed for a week now and we are getting some feedback on the new UI We hope to incorporate some of this feedback in the 5.1 release 5.1 will include a fix needed by the CI pipeline Ci pipeline on fedora-messaging JMS plugin has been updated That broke datagrepper: unix timestamp are in seconds, not milliseconds and postgresql doesn’t like the year 51850 Fedora-messaging client on resultsdb had broke Open ticket is for monitoring: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8392 repoSpanner 83x performance patch submitted as a pull request and is awaiting review. Once the 83x patch is merged, we hope that it will be possible to make a release/deployment. It is possible that it will still be too slow so our next idea for improvement involves changing the API that nodes use to synchronize objects with each other. Application Retirements Elections Blocking issue was fixed https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253 Bcotton confirmed the fix is now in place - thanks Ben! Fedocal No progress on kanban board last four weeks https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/fedora-calendar/kanban Jlanda is still hitting permission error in communishift https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274 Working on running local instance Nuancier Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication By creating a PR on Github, we should be able to see the progress New PR from sebwoj - Porting to Fedora messaging Pastebin Magazine article posted after getting bounced between commblog and magazine a few times. On track for December 1 modernpaste shutdown GDPR and privacy centric conversations are ongoing with respect to application handovers Misc Introduction of a dedicated team for community issues: The CPE Team have created a dedicated team to work through a backlog of issues that are affecting the community. The team has a 6 week plan ahead of them this side of the New Year Check out our Kanban board: https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/community-fire-team/kanban Our first priority task is to fix the bugzilla sync script Got its own upstream project: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/ We will be working on these items secondary to other work we have but will try to get some of these issues resolved soon! EPEL 8 modularity: Modules are building in stg koji Tagging is working Bodhi testing is blocked on https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/3779 Nest steps are to test epel8 playground module composing Comments? Suggestions? Feedback? Let Us Know! Have a great weekend! Aoife -- Aoife Moloney Feature Driver Community Platform Engineering Team Red Hat EMEA Communications House Cork Road Waterford

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[Infra] - Planned outage : git.centos.org
by Fabian Arrotin 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

We have to do some maintenance work on the node[s] hosting git.centos.org to optimize the git storage layout : the goal is to get better performances and also fix some issues reported by some of our users. Worth knowing that ssh will be blocked to prevent git pushes and so "freeze" the git repositories while they are reorganized. Migration is scheduled for """"Monday November 25th, 7:00 am UTC time"""". You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2019-11-25 7:00 UTC') The expected "downtime" is estimated to ~60 minutes , time needed to reflect the new git storage layout. Thanks for your comprehending and patience. on behalf of the Infra team, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab

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CentOS Atomic Host 7.1910 Available for Download
by Jason Brooks 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an [updated version](https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic/Download) of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1910), an operating system designed to run Linux containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. CentOS Atomic Host includes these core component versions: * atomic-1.22.1-29.gitb507039.el7.x86_64 * rpm-ostree-client-2018.5-2.atomic.el7.x86_64 * ostree-2019.1-2.el7.x86_64 * cloud-init-18.5-3.el7.centos.x86_64 * docker-1.13.1-103.git7f2769b.el7.centos.x86_64 * kernel-3.10.0-1062.4.3.el7.x86_64 * podman-1.4.4-4.el7.centos.x86_64 * flannel-0.7.1-4.el7.x86_64 * etcd-3.3.11-2.el7.centos.x86_64 ## Download CentOS Atomic Host CentOS Atomic Host is available as a VirtualBox or libvirt-formatted Vagrant box, or as an installable ISO, or qcow2 image. For links to media, see the [CentOS wiki](https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic/Download). ## Upgrading If you're running a previous version of CentOS Atomic Host, you can upgrade to the current image by running the following command: ```bash # atomic host upgrade ``` ## Release Cycle The CentOS Atomic Host image follows the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host cadence. After sources are released, they're rebuilt and included in new images. After the images are tested by the SIG and deemed ready, we announce them. ## Getting Involved CentOS Atomic Host is produced by the [CentOS Atomic SIG](http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic), based on upstream work from [Project Atomic](http://www.projectatomic.io/). If you'd like to work on testing images, help with packaging, documentation -- join us! You'll often find us in #atomic and/or #centos-devel if you have questions. You can also join the [atomic-devel](https://lists.projectatomic.io/mailman/listinfo/atomic-devel) mailing list if you'd like to discuss the direction of Project Atomic, its components, or have other questions. ## Getting Help If you run into any problems with the images or components, feel free to ask on the [centos-devel](http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel) mailing list. Have questions about using Atomic? See the [atomic](https://lists.projectatomic.io/mailman/listinfo/atomic) mailing list or find us in the #atomic channel on Freenode. -- Jason Brooks Community Architects & Infrastructure Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) https://community.redhat.com | https://osci.io

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missing src.rpm for updated centos 8 kernels?
by Antal Nemeš 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hi all, Latest (at this time) kernel for Centos 8 is kernel-4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0. I am unable to find the .src.rpm for this kernel anywhere in Centos repositories. I looked in: http://vault.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/ http://mirror.nsc.liu.se/centos-store/centos/8/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/ Source package link on centos.pgks.org is also dead: https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-baseos-x86_64/kernel-4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.… Where can I find the src.rpm for this kernel? This applies to several other C8 kernel updates. I am yet to cross-reference other packages to see if any other src.rpms are missing. Regards, Antal

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Fwd: php, cve-2019-11043 and AppStream repo updates
by Angelo Lisco 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hi to all, Am I wrong or the CentOS AppStream repo is heavily lagging behind the RedHat repos? Some examples here: - the php:7.2 critical security errata published on 2019-11-06 (that's almost 2 weeks ago) [1] [2] is still unavailable in the CentOS AppStream repo leaving systems vulnerable to an already exploited bug [3]; - (this is less critical IMHO) new yum modules published in EL8.1 on on 2019-11-05 (php:7.3 nginx:1.16, ruby:2.6, nodejs:12) are still unavailable in the CentOS AppStream repo; I'm wondering if it's unintended and justified by lack of time and resources or it's a sneaky strategy to let users choose RHEL for running production systems instead of CentOS. I'm really sorry to say that but the issue described here and the lack of a security errata bulletin [4], makes CentOS8 almost unusable on a production environment. Thanks for your attention. Regards Angelo Barney [1] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3735 [2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11043 [3] https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcry-or-how-a-hacker-tried-to-exploit-a-nginx… [4] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2019-November/018053.html

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CPE Weekly: 2019-11-16
by Aoife Moloney 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hi Everyone! Travelling yesterday saw a delay in sending this weeks CPE email blast, but nevertheless, here it is! Hope everyone has been having a great weekend and if you have any comments or feedback, please let me know- it is always welcome :) Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. For better communication, we will be giving weekly reports to the CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being done. Also for better communication between our groups we have created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists with context here. Note: This document is currently built from individual reports rolled into a google document which we edit and copy into a final document. We are aware that this causes problems with some email readers, and are working on a method to make this less problematic. High Level Project Updates: CentOS: The team is busy working on 8.1 Comps were produced and in git repo for next compose (pungi) Transmodrify tool rewritten to match the mbs/rpm needs Analyzing what RH hasn’t pushed and so that is needed Builds started and are being worked on for x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64 and armhfp architectures https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/index https://koji.armhfp-mbox.centos.org/koji/index Infrastructure : Dealing with hardware issues on storage box , so opening tickets with the vendor and internal IT to play MITM and try to get this solved Dealing with RCM having still issues to push to git.centos.org for some identified packages (reproducible) so now waiting on Repospanner maintainer to come with a fix and an ETA for new release that would fix it Trying to provision some EC2 instances and working with Fedora to get proper access to be able to have proper AWS access for CentOS (also for S3) Working on various PR for cbs-content-control and/or issues with mash on https://cbs.centos.org (now resolved) Fedora: Rawhide Gating: Bodhi 5.0 has been deployed in production We received some feedback about the changes in the UI and are looking at how we can address them. We are working on documenting on how packagers will use Bodhi for multi-builds updates in rawhide: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/2322 https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nphilipp/Package_update_HO… A 5.1 release is scheduled, likely some time next week, to address some of the issues encountered and fixed in the 5.0 release. repoSpanner Our team came across some test reliability issues last week & these are impeding progress on the 83x patch. Some more debugging/discussions around RCMs pushes that seem to be either very slow or hanging but the team is looking into some solutions Some progress was also made on the 83x patch however and we managed to fix one unreliable test. Application Retirements Elections Blocking issue was fixed (https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253) Fedocal jlanda hitting permission error in communishift https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274 Nuancier Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication Pastebin An article will be posted to Magazine instead - keep an eye out! GDPR policies are still being looked into so stay tuned for updates soon. This unfortunately takes some time given the legal perspective needed! Misc EPEL 8 modularity EPEL8 module builds are working in staging & composes should be closed There are now tags added to staging in koji Bodhi configs have been updated Pungi configs for epel8-playground are updated Bug about zchunk update for EPEL-7 was fixed https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/3692 Fedora Docs Multiple small PRs were merged where people were being sent to Fedora docs after F31 came out & below are all fixed: https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/system-administrators-guide/issue/40 https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/system-administrators-guide/issue/39 https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/system-administrators-guide/issue/35 https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/install-guide/issue/33 https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/system-administrators-guide/issue/25 https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/system-administrators-guide/issue/23 https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/issue/155 Kindest regards, Aoife -- Aoife Moloney Feature Driver Community Platform Engineering Team Red Hat EMEA Communications House Cork Road Waterford

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libvirt-guests
by Marko Bevc 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Hi. I'm missing this package in CentOS 8 repos, not sure if this is correct place for this question, but does someone have info what happended and how to aciheve same functionality on C8? Or at least point me to the right direction. Been looking all over and cannot seem to find any info on it. Thanks, Marko

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[Meeting] CentOS Cloud SIG meeting (2019-11-14)
by Alfredo Moralejo Alonso 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

====================================================== #centos-meeting: CentOS Cloud SIG meeting (2019-11-14) ====================================================== Meeting started by amoralej at 15:01:21 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://www.centos.org/minutes/2019/November/centos-meeting.2019-11-14-15… . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call (amoralej, 15:01:53) * altarch synchronization still broken https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16590 (amoralej, 15:06:28) * ACTION: amoralej to request kb for updates (amoralej, 15:07:57) * status of OpenStack on CentOS8 (amoralej, 15:08:14) * CloudSIG is waiting for CBS to provide centos8 buildroot to start building dependencies - no ETA provided (amoralej, 15:09:33) * LINK: https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/moving-rdo-to-centos8 (amoralej, 15:09:37) * -candidate tags cleanup (amoralej, 15:11:18) * old packages that never were promoted have been cleaned up in -candidate tags in cloudsig (amoralej, 15:11:57) * LINK: https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/candidate-only (ykarel, 15:12:42) * feature has been added in graffiti to report old unpromoted builds - https://softwarefactory-project.io/r/#/c/16906/ (amoralej, 15:12:42) * LINK: https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/candidate-only (amoralej, 15:12:58) * open floor (amoralej, 15:13:33) * tripleo standalone job is added to validate -release tagged builds (ykarel, 15:14:24) * LINK: https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/q/topic:cloudsig-containers (ykarel, 15:14:44) * ci jobs and views have been reorganized in ci.centos.org for CloudSIG https://ci.centos.org/view/rdo/view/CloudSIG%20periodic%20validation/ (amoralej, 15:17:12) * ACTION: amoralej to create a trello card to track status of cloudsig validation using tripleo in ci.centos.org (amoralej, 15:20:47) Meeting ended at 15:32:21 UTC. Action Items ------------ * amoralej to request kb for updates * amoralej to create a trello card to track status of cloudsig validation using tripleo in ci.centos.org Action Items, by person ----------------------- * amoralej * amoralej to request kb for updates * amoralej to create a trello card to track status of cloudsig validation using tripleo in ci.centos.org * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * amoralej (58) * ykarel (21) * centbot (5) * rbowen (5)

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[SCLo SIG] new sclo-php*-php-pecl-rrd packages available for testing
by Remi Collet 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Yet another package available in centos-sclo-sclo-testing PHP bindings to rrd tool system. https://pecl.php.net/package/rrd For rh-php72 * sclo-php72-php-pecl-rrd-2.0.1-1 For rh-php73 * sclo-php73-php-pecl-rrd-2.0.1-1 Remi. P.S.: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo

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CentOS 8 Live ISO?
by Fredrik Mikker 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Good evening, I'm looking for at CentOS 8 Live ISO, but I fail to find one. Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction? -- Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards Fredrik Mikker fredrik(a)mikker.se

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[SCLo SIG] new PHP 7.3 available for testing
by Remi Collet 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi, RHSCL 3.4 Beta is released and provides some new Software Collections including PHP version 7.3 For RHEL 7 users rh-php73 packages are available in the rhel-server-rhscl-7-beta-rpms channel: For CentOS 7 users rh-php73 packages are available in the centos-sclo-rh-testing repository: rh-php73-1-1.el7 rh-php73-php-7.3.7-2.el7 rh-php73-php-pear-1.10.9-1.el7 rh-php73-php-pecl-apcu-5.1.17-1.el7 rh-php73-php-pecl-xdebug-2.7.2-1.el7 Additional packages: sclo-php73 packages are available in the centos-sclo-sclo-testing repository: sclo-php73-php-ast-1.0.3-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-imap-7.3.7-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-amqp-1.9.4-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-apcu-bc-1.0.5-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-apfd-1.0.1-5.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-geoip-1.1.1-4.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-http-3.2.2-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-igbinary-2.0.8-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-lzf-1.6.7-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-memcached-3.1.4-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-mongodb-1.6.0-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-msgpack-2.0.3-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-propro-2.1.0-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-raphf-2.0.1-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-redis5-5.1.0-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-selinux-0.4.2-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-solr2-2.5.0-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-ssh2-1.2-1.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-uploadprogress-1.0.3.1-5.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-uuid-1.0.4-4.el7 sclo-php73-php-pecl-xattr-1.3.0-4.el7 sclo-php73-php-phpiredis-1.0.0-3.el7 sclo-php73-php-smbclient-1.0.0-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-sodium-7.3.7-2.el7 sclo-php73-php-tidy-7.3.7-1.el7 sclo-php73-unit-php-1.12.0-1.el7 Thanks for testing, Remi. P.S.: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo

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