devel March 2019

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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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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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Using mirrorlist in centos-release-* packages
by Anssi Johansson 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi, as mentioned in https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2018-September/016949.html mirrorlist.centos.org has been updated to produce mirror lists for SIG content as well. Some centos-release-* packages have already been modified to use mirrorlist.centos.org instead of mirror.centos.org, but many still point to mirror.centos.org. Most of mirror.centos.org hosts are also used for seeding the 600+ external mirrors we have. By directing some of their download traffic to external mirrors we can offer faster sync speeds for those external mirrors, and for people downloading individual rpms from mirror.centos.org. Second, most of those external mirrors offer faster download speeds to end users than what could be achieved by downloading from mirror.centos.org, so the users will benefit from this change as well. The better geographical coverage does not hurt either. mirror.centos.org nodes are donated servers, and it would be kind to the sponsors to use their bandwidth sparingly. The .repo files should be modified so that the current baseurl line gets commented out and a mirrorlist entry gets added, like this: mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/storage/$basearch/gluster-4.1/ Note that mirrorlist.c.o can automatically choose between main and altarch content based on the arch parameter. The repo names are constructed from the repository path by stripping away the architecture and changing any slashes to dashes: sclo/x86_64/rh -> sclo-rh, sclo/x86_64/sclo -> sclo-sclo, paas/x86_64/openshift-origin311 -> paas-openshift-origin311, storage/x86_64/gluster-5 -> storage-gluster-5 etc. You can use 'curl' to check what mirrorlist outputs for your repository. New repos are added to mirrorlist.centos.org automatically once the repository hits mirror.centos.org. That script is currently run every three hours. I guess it could be run more frequently (it's fairly lightweight), but you should give the external mirrors a few hours to sync before announcing your release anyway. You can either submit an update to your current centos-release-* file now, or wait until you need to create a new centos-release-* package for other reasons such as releasing softwarepackage-(version+1) which uses different paths. My recommendation would be to submit an update to your current centos-release-* package, so that you would not need to worry about this when you eventually need to publish a new one for other reasons. We released an updated centos-release package for CentOS AltArch before 7.6.1810 was released for this exact reason, ie. we didn't need to worry about this change at 7.6.1810 release time. Other people (such as bstinson, arrfab and hughesjr) can probably help with creating and publishing an updated centos-release-* package, but the usual tagging procedure to extras will apply. The SIG Guide https://wiki.centos.org/SIGGuide should have all the needed details for this (if not, complain to bstinson). It is highly recommended to actually test your new centos-release-* package from buildlogs before you ask that package to be signed and pushed to extras. The holiday season is fast approaching so (I) don't expect much activity regarding these changes in the following days. I'm hoping that the SIGs would take a look at this in early 2019, though. Thanks to those SIGs who have already made these changes to their centos-release-* packages! If you have questions, feel free to ask either here or on #centos-devel. Thanks for your time!

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contributions to websites
by Florian Winter 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Hi all, I'd like to contribute to websites belonging to CentOS. How can I start, what's the best way ? One suggestion I have, is to migrate centos.org from nanoc to a python based static site generator for example pelican. best regards, florian

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[scl.org] [SCLo SIG] new sclo-php*-unit-php packages available for testing
by Remi Collet 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Yet another package available in centos-sclo-sclo-testing NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API. The design of the server allows reconfiguration of specific application parameters as needed by the engineering or operations. See https://unit.nginx.org/ unit-php is the module for the php language designed to work with "unit" from official nginx repository. For rh-php72 (EL-7 only) * sclo-php72-unit-php-1.8.0-1 For rh-php71 (EL-7 only) * sclo-php71-unit-php-1.8.0-1 For rh-php70 * sclo-php70-unit-php-1.8.0-1 Remi. P.S. https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo

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CentOS Atomic Host 7.1902 Available for Download
by Jason Brooks 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version (https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic/Download) of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1902), 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-1.22.1-26.gitb507039.el7.centos.x86_64 * rpm-ostree-client-2018.5-2.atomic.el7.x86_64 * ostree-2018.5-1.el7.x86_64 * cloud-init-18.2-1.el7.centos.1.x86_64 * docker-1.13.1-91.git07f3374.el7.centos.x86_64 * kernel-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 * podman-0.12.1.2-2.git9551f6b.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, qcow2 or Amazon Machine 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: # 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.

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openjdk headless now requires gtk2
by Gordon Messmer 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Does anyone know why the headless openjdk now requires gtk2? Changelogs say "see RHBZ 1598152" but that bug is private. It looks like the change was intended to affect the "headful" package and not the headless one... Curiosity has the better of me.

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dist-git
by Miroslav Suchý 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

I would like to ask what is status of dist-git in CentOS? Do you use it is as bunch of packages or as package? Originally dist-git was just bunch of packages copied to propper places. But since we started using dist-git in Copr we packaged it: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=20308 and gave it propper upstream: https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git Copr and Fedora now use this package. Does CentOS use this package or do you have just files you maintain on your own? Miroslav

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[Meeting] RDO meeting (2019-03-13) minutes
by Michael Turek 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

============================== #rdo: RDO meeting - 2019-03-13 ============================== Meeting started by mjturek at 15:00:13 UTC. The full logs are available at http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/rdo_meeting___2019_03_13/2019/rdo_m… . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call (mjturek, 15:00:28) * Logging woes for containers job (mjturek, 15:03:45) * As per tripleo-ci change pike w/ ceph is workikng again (see https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/19141 + depends-on) (mjturek, 15:06:08) * Ansible 2.7 blocked in Stein on Nautilus build on PPC (fultonj, 15:07:27) * LINK: https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/18721 (mjturek, 15:08:06) * LINK: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15906 (fultonj, 15:11:09) * PPC build of ceph nautilus is failing with an OOM, need to talk with centos folks for help here. E-mail sent and bug opened (mjturek, 15:14:59) * chair for next meeting (mjturek, 15:16:01) * amoralej to chair next meeting (mjturek, 15:16:48) * open floor (mjturek, 15:17:17) * LINK: https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/19236/ (mjturek, 15:20:33) Meeting ended at 15:32:15 UTC. People present (lines said) --------------------------- * mjturek (45) * fultonj (26) * amoralej (25) * ykarel (20) * openstack (9) * jschlueter (4) * rdogerrit (3) * gfidente (3) * baha (2) * PagliaccisCloud (1) * jpena (1) * Duck (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4

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