devel September 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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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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VDO on CentOS Stream
by Andrew Walsh 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Hello, First, let me express how excited I am by the news of the CentOS Stream offering. I am really looking forward to how this works out in the long run. I am in the group that builds VDO, and it is currently delivered as a kmod in CentOS Stream, RHEL, and CentOS. This requires that if the signatures of the symbols that VDO uses change from one kernel to the next, we may need to rebuild the package against the more recent kernel. The current version of kmod-kvdo (6.2.0.293-50.el8) delivered in CentOS Stream is the equivalent of the RHEL-8.0/CentOS-8.0 GA, while the version of the kernel (4.18.0-144.el8) is newer. In the time between the kernel that kmod-kvdo was built against (4.18.0-72.el8) and the current kernel in CentOS Stream, the signatures have changed. As a result, the kernel modules delivered in the kmod-kvdo package cannot be loaded due to symbol mismatches (all device mapper related symbols that change periodically, from what I've experienced). I believe that a simple rebuild of kmod-kvdo-6.2.0.293-50.el8 against kernel-4.18.0-144.el8 should be effective enough to get it working again. How can I help facilitate this rebuild now and/or moving forward? I realize that things are still very much in motion and not fully implemented/decided at this point. Andy Walsh

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RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-8
by Leon Fauster 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Hi All! Congratulations to the CentOS Team! Great handcraft! I am impressed! While trying to the verify the downloaded stuff - my mental questions got answered by my self. So, no need to ask the list but this introspection shows a hidden workflow that is not so streamlined, but very crucial. So, I let it go ... As mentioned I wanted to verify the downloaded stuff and wonder where to find a trusted source for the RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-8 key file (yes, -8)? Okay its here https://www.centos.org/keys/ and and the trust-level is based on TLS. But I still have some questions marks: - We all use gpg2, right? So the/my first check will go through gnupg, but GPG keyservers are not the first choice because everyone can upload keys but there are some efforts to have the identities at least verified https://keys.openpgp.org/about/news#2019-06-12-launch . Maybe a good idea to have full key informations (verified) for all CENTOS-Keys also there? so I switched to - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/ via HTTP without TLS upgrade. So, also not a source. Is it planned to lift this up to https-only? BTW, no RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-8 under http://mirror.centos.org/centos/ Ah, its RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official (another flow break). I ended up here - WWW via TLS as mentioned above https://www.centos.org/keys/ and https://wiki.centos.org/Download/Verify while the latter suggest wget over http:// (I known the fingerprint is https://wiki...-TLS protected). the wiki is still CentOS7 specific. From the usability point of view there is a forced translation needed from the user (my/users goal has CentOS8 as target). So the only trusted source is https://www.centos.org/keys/ with https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official for CentOS8. Finally, this would speed up this crucial part of verifying to new distro stuff (ISO etc.): Suggestions: Generalized https://wiki.centos.org/Download/Verify content and a included link to https://www.centos.org/keys/ (actually missing), and the same URI could be added to the CHECKSUM.asc file. Maybe its also a good best practice to have the fingerprints and the key files in two different realms too? BTW, the wiki search result for gpg, pgp or keys does not bring "Download/Verify" as the first entry. Can this be upvoted or tagged? Just thinking loud. Thanks, Leon

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Booting CentOS 8 in a VM - can't find the disk
by Richard W.M. Jones 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

I'm trying to boot CentOS 8 in a VM using my usual kickstart and virt-install recipes. Dracut fails in a way that indicates it cannot find the install disk: [ 4.984555] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp1s0: link is not ready [ 4.985509] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device enp1s0 [ 5.599558] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp1s0: link becomes ready [ 7.058879] dracut-initqueue[926]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists [ 134.439929] dracut-initqueue[926]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 134.969517] dracut-initqueue[926]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 135.488283] dracut-initqueue[926]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts (repeated endlessly until it drops into the emergency shell) The kernel sees the virtio-blk device, the kmod is loaded, and /dev/vda exists ... So I don't really know. Can anyone see my mistake? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org

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CentOS QA Team.
by Akim Grudzitsky 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

Hi, My name is Akim Grudzitsky. I live in Washington, D.C. area. >From the CentOS-announce I've learned that you are looking for people to get involved with the QA process in CentOS. That is exactly what I am interested in. I have about 3 years of experience as Linux Sys Admin (particularly with CentOS 7 and RHEL 7), I am currently studying for the RHCSA exam, and additionally, I possess 8 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance. I thought It would be great to have an opportunity to contribute to the CentOS project by combining my interest in Linux and previous QA experience. Could you please advise what kind of information I should provide to be considered? Also, it would be great to learn more about the CentOS QA process and how I can start? Thank you in advance. Regards, Akim

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CentOS Streams q&a
by Lamar Owen 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

So, now that Earth has caught up to the TARDIS...... Would someone from the CentOS team like to explain CentOS Streams? I saw an article at The NewStack yesterday that gave some info; oddly enough that article is giving a 404 right now, but Google still has it in cache. But Johnny's statement a few days ago, and then this announcement, makes this new CentOS Streams business look interesting. I see a new directory on the mirrors called 8-stream with interesting content......

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