devel October 2022

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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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Few questions on cloud images
by Pino Toscano 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

Hello, I have few questions related to the cloud images provides for c8s and c9s, i.e.: - https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8-stream/x86_64/images/ - https://cloud.centos.org/centos/9-stream/x86_64/images/ 1) I see the c9s images are regularly updated, while the c8s images not; is this wanted, or simply a mistake/miss somewhere? If so, will they be kept up-to-date just like the c9s images? 2) are the Vagrant images there officially supported? Let's say you use one, and find a bug; then check on a "classic" installation (baremetal/VM), and the bug isn't there; can users report problems in those cases? 3) would it be possible to have either unversioned or "-latest" symlinks for the latest versions of all the files (i.e. images, checksums, etc)? This way, it will be much easier for users to fetch the latest versions with no need to change URLs frequently. Of course, the assumption is that users of this are always willing to use the latest version. Thanks! -- Pino Toscano

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Proposal: CentOS Public Board Meetings
by Rich Bowen 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

In January of 2021, the CentOS Board of Directors opened our monthly meetings to all SIG chairs, in a first step towards more transparent governance. We wanted to see how the larger audience changed the meeting dynamics, if at all, as well as welcoming a broader pool of voices. We are now ready for the second part of this process. Starting in the August meeting, we will be inviting the entire CentOS community to attend these meetings. Due to the nature of the Internet, we won’t be simply publishing the meeting URL, as this often leads to disruptive behavior in meetings, as I am sure many of you have experienced. Rather, in the week before the meeting, we’ll send, to this list, a way to request an invitation to the meeting. In this way, we hope to limit the incidence of such disruptions, while also making the meeting available to anyone who wishes to attend. We will be working on the rules of engagement for these meetings, but they will be, at minimum: * Wait to be recognized by the Chair before speaking * Respect the Chair when told your time to speak is over - this will allow us to remain on agenda, and complete the meetings in the allotted time * In the event that there are Board-confidential topics, these will be put at the end of the meeting, in Executive Session, and guests will be asked to leave. We hope to minimize these items, but they do sometimes happen. The most common scenarios in which this may happen are personnel issues, or information that Red Hat wishes to share with the Board, but is not yet public. * Muting of participants, or, in extreme situations, ejection from the meeting, is at the sole discretion of the Chair. * Meetings will be recorded, and published to YouTube (possibly with edits/redactions, as approved by the Directors). Thus, by joining the meeting you consent to have your presence at the meeting, and anything you say during the meeting, made public. Because there will seldom be time for Q&A during the meeting itself, we plan to add a post-meeting IRC office hours session for followup questions. This will probably be scheduled for a week after the board meeting, to allow time to publish meeting minutes We welcome your comments about the above proposal, and thank you all for your patience as we implement these changes to our governance process.

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Gauging interest in Discourse
by Shaun McCance 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Hi all, You might be aware that there is a CentOS category on the Fedora Discourse instance: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71 There have been some discussions about having a dedicated Discourse instance for CentOS. Discourse has a lot of advantages, such as better moderation and integration with our accounts system. But I understand that many people are comfortable with their existing workflows. There's no point in running Discourse if it doesn't get enough buy-in. So I'm asking for input on using Discourse for various things: * Project announcements, like events, meetings, and infra changes * Activity reports, such as for SIGs and events * User support, replacing forums.centos.org * Development of Stream itself, basically centos-devel * Development of stuff inside SIGs * Replacement for the comments section of the blog * Alternatively, just replacing the blog entirely * Something else I'm not thinking of Thanks, Shaun McCance CentOS Community Architect Red Hat Open Source Program Office

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CPE Weekly Update – Week 43 2022
by Lenka Segura 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

*Hi everyone,This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team.The report could be found at https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-43-2022 <https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-43-2022>/.If you want to receive weekly reports by emails in the future, please subscribe to either https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ <https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/> or https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/news/commblog/61 <https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/news/commblog/61>. We will stop sending them in 2023.Regards,CPE Team*

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Re: [CentOS-devel] kernel-5.14.0-171.el9.x86_64 / Not bootable (EFI) after Firmware update
by Leon Fauster 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Am 08.10.22 um 16:24 schrieb Leon Fauster: > Hey folks, I wonder if anyone also suffers from the following: > > I updated the BIOS/Firmware of a DELL notebook from 1.8 to 1.9. and > after this the latest C9S > > kernel-5.14.0-171.el9.x86_64 > > can't be booted anymore (secure boot on) but the two older ones do boot: > > kernel-5.14.0-165.el9.x86_64 > kernel-5.14.0-168.el9.x86_64 > > The grub error message when trying to boot kernel-5.14.0-171.el9.x86_64 > looks like: > > error: ../../grub-core/kern/efi/sb.c:183:bad shim signature. > error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:259:you need to load the > kernel first. > > I wonder how this happens. The firmware is classified as bug-fix update. > > Not sure if DBX list was update. fwupdmgr shows "Current version: 83" > If so, it does not make sense that older kernels can be used to boot the > system. So, a big question mark how to solve this issue? Any hints ...? > > > # sha256sum /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI > 3ae459e79408b5287ce70c5b86ddcc92c243c7442d6769a330390598b7a351b1 > /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI > It seems that the kernel-5.14.0 of the release 17X-series do not get signed with the CentOS key anymore! https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2138019 TLDR: /boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-16* versus /boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-17* shows The signer's common name is CentOS Secure Boot Signing 201 versus The signer's common name is Red Hat Test Certificate Is this issue already receiving the right attention? -- Thanks Leon

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CPE Weekly Update - Week 42 2022
by Michal Konecny 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

Hi everyone, This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. The report could be found at https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ cpe-weekly-update---week-42-2022/ <https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=11495>. If you want to receive weekly reports by emails in the future, please subscribe to either https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/news/commblog/61. We will stop sending them in the future. Regards, CPE Team

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Renaming Dojos
by Shaun McCance 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

Hi all, The CentOS Board is looking at renaming Dojos, our series of free mini- conferences. Please give your input on this Discussion post: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/renaming-centos-dojos/43351 Note that Fedora and CentOS share an accounts system, so if you have a CentOS account, you already have a login for Fedora Discussion. Thanks, Shaun

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October board meeting recording and office hours
by Shaun McCance 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi all, I've uploaded the recordings of last week's board meeting: https://youtu.be/FA0ddn-IWes If you'd like to discuss any issues with the board, we'll have an open board office hours this Thursday, October 20, at 14:00 UTC: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87623425120 Thanks, Shaun

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