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Re: [CentOS-devel] XFS module ... big troubles
by Gernot Stocker 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Jim Perrin wrote: > Okay. Why are you rebuilding, rather than use the already compiled > version in the repository? Especially with such crucial things like kernel I like to be able to react on my own if there are arising security issues not fixed by the upstreram distro in time. Therefore I like the idea of at least beeing able to rebuild the kernel on my own if I have to. > While you should in theory be able to rebuild the module and have it work > just fine, sometimes there are issues with the build environment that are > difficult to track down. That's strange because we didn't change anything regarding the build environment. It is a plain Centos 5 installation from scratch using the DVD iso image. Beside some configuration regarding iptables and NFS service NOTHING was been changed. > > Do you get the same results with the precompiled modules? > I will try it tomorrow evening because we need the image server today for a bunch of new installations. Luckky us that ext3 is working ;-) As soon as the student rooms are installed I will test the precompiled module and come back to the list with the results. > I don't use xfs that extensively on i686 hardware because I don't > trust the 4k stack limitation issue, but a quick run-through with the > pre-built modules, and I don't seem to have this issue. (moved a > bunch of copies of the centos-5 dvd around, on and off the fs, > md5suming each time) That doesn't make me feel better ;-) We wanted to migrate a machine with almost 7000 user homes on XFS to CentOS 5 and I'm now a "little" bit scared unless we can't track down the problem. Thanks for your hints, Gernot -- Gernot Stocker, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics(IGB) Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: ++43 316 873 5345 http://genome.tugraz.at

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CentOS booth at LinuxTag 2007, Berlin, Germany
by Dag Wieers 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hi all, The CentOS team is preparing for LinuxTag 2007 on: Wed 30 May 2007 until Sat 2 June 2007 in Berlin, Germany We have a wiki page dedicated to LinuxTag 2007 at: http://wiki.centos.org/Events/LinuxTag2007 If you're interested to help out organising this event, subscribe to our new promo mailinglist at: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo And if you were planning to go to LinuxTag, please pay us a visit. We're very interested to meet and discuss future development and exciting new ideas. This is a perfect opportunity to connect CentOS team-members and CentOS users. Hope we can meet at LinuxTag 2007 ! -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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New mailing list: CentOS-Promo
by Ralph Angenendt 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Ladies and Gentlemen, we, the CentOS Project, are proud to invite you to our newest mailing list: CentOS-Promo. This list is for the discussion of Events, Gatherings and (LUG)Meetings where CentOS will or should be presented. Should *you* join this mailing list? Yes, if - you want to help out at events - you want to present CentOS at your LUG - you have great ideas for marketing material to promote CentOS - you are interested in doing promotion for CentOS - you know about events where CentOS should be (re)presented - you want to invite CentOS developers to your LUG/Event (you want to pay travelling costs, don't you? >:) ) - you want to know where CentOS will be presented next So go ahead, subscribe to this list and help us spread the word! CentOS is good for you! We know we will see you on that mailing list soon. Just point your browser to <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/CentOS-Promo> and join us! Be seeing you there, Ralph

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XFS module ... big troubles
by Gernot Stocker 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi CentOS developers, first of all congrats for the CentOS 5 release! I'm using on several production servers xfs as file system and would like to migrate them from CentOS 4.4/FCx to CentOS 5. I tried for a low priority image server the module downloaded from the site below: http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS/xfs-kmod-0.3-2.2.6.18_8.1.1.el… The results have been completely destroyed image files. It was quite strange that small files remaind fine whereas bigger files auf more than 1GB have been destroyed. Has anybody else made similar experiences using this module? Any hints how this problems could be solved? Thanks Gernot -- Gernot Stocker, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics(IGB) Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: ++43 316 873 5345 http://genome.tugraz.at

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Building CentOS for Alpha/AXP and SPARC
by Martin P. Kalitis 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello all, I originaly sent this email to Ralph Angenendt and he suggested posting it to the devel mailing list.I have had a look at the CentOS distro and noticed that you are looking for a maintainer for SPARC. Whilst I don't have access to a SPARC system as yet I do have access to an AXP (ALPHA) and noticed that the latest build/release you have for this platform is 4.3 and not 4.4 or 5. If you need extra resources to help make the newer releases happen for the AXP platform, I am more than willing to help out where I can. I work as a systems developer and have a background not only in development but also systems administration which includes building custom toolchains and embedded versions of Linux for various hardware platforms. Initially I can begin work on producing a AXP release with a SPARC release following once the hardware hits my doorstep. Let me know if you are interested in my offer. Thanks, Martin.

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bugs in an Spanish Instalation...
by Roger Peña 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Hi centos dev If I chose to install centos5 in spanish, I found that some text are still in english, like in: 1- Software selection: first sentence "The default instalation of CentOS includes ...." texts in the rest of the page are in spanish though :-) 2- When selecting specific or individuals packages in one group (KDE group) the description of each package is in english, although the name of the groups packages are in spanish 3- In the Donation Slide, the title is in English . probabily this is our fault :-( because I could not see the title in the Artwork translation page: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/rnotes/Translations#head-6310e1248c5e7bbd6bb… what should we do? update/fix the wiki page? thanks for give us this nice distribution :-) very good work cu roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified Engineer ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified Network Associate ( CCNA ) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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How can I search in bugzilla.centos.org ?
by Roger Peña 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Hi I was trying to find if someone reported a litle, very litle, bug in yum.conf file but I could not see how to make a search in centos bugzilla page :-( the litle bug is, probabily reported, that distropkg is set to redhat-release insted to centos-release, like this: distroverpkg=centos-release BTW, I am exploring centos5-x86_64 :-) I forgot to mention it in my previous mail also, it would be nice if anaconda fail more polite when it can't find 'groups definitions' in the repos files, right now it just make a break with a "send a bug report" messages and abort instalation. I know that should not happen but .... sometime do :-) I notice that when I try to make an instalation via http but creating the repos with creatrepo command in centos-4.4 (not using the dvd iso, just copying the rpms and creating the repo), I forgot to create the groups, so the instalations fail over and over againg until I realize what was the problem, sadly I had to go over and over again through all initial steps I know that is not a bug, just a RFE but ... thanks roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified Engineer ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified Network Associate ( CCNA ) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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syslog-ng
by Richard Shade 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

CentOS Team, We have rebuilt syslog-ng based on the Fedora Core 6 Extras SRPM on CentOS 5. We would like to contribute it to the repository. Below are the links to the files need to build syslog-ng. You will need to install libol to complete a re-build. Thanks for your time and CentOS 5. SPEC: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rightscale_scripts_dev/syslog-ng.spec SRPM: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rightscale_scripts_dev/syslog-ng-1.6.12-1.el5.cento… RPM: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rightscale_scripts_dev/syslog-ng-1.6.12-1.el5.cento… LIBOL: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rightscale_scripts_dev/libol-0.3.18.tar.gz Richard Shade RightScale http://www.rightscale.com/

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Jigdoes of CentOS 4.4 and 5.0 i386/x86_64 CD/DVD available.
by Maciej Żenczykowski 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Reposting original message from CentOS mailing list for further discussion with developers and QA deep (per instructions). --- I've gone through the trouble (after some 10 rounds I finally have something I'm happy with) and generated jigdo/template files for CentOS 5.0 iso's (CD/DVD i386/x86_64) (and CentOS 4.4 while I was at it: CD/DVD/ServerCD SRPMS/i386/x86_64). (and I started on this before the thread about creating the DVD's from the CD's started ;-) ) They are available at: http://tcs.uj.edu.pl/~buildcentos/centos-jigdo/ (I skipped the LiveCD since jigdo offers no size improvement here -- already for the ServerCD the template file is 125 MBs because of the different .img files inside the iso) These jigdo/template files should allow you to generate any of the listed cd/dvd isos from the publically available http://mirror.centos.org mirror site (which is DNS-aliased to something close to you). Jigdo will also allow using a local source of files (ie. an existing CD, etc...) You will need to install jigdo-file and jigdo-lite. It is available: - in package jigdo from dag's repository (rpmforge) for CentOS 4 (and others) - in package jigdo-file for debian/ubuntu (just apt-get it) - from the source website (both sources, and windows binaries, and statically linked linux binaries) http://atterer.net/jigdo/ Once installed usage is (...should be...) trivial: jigdo-lite --noask http://tcs.uj.edu.pl/~buildcentos/centos-jigdo/%.jigdo which will generate the requested (replace the % with what you want, see the http://tcs.uj.edu.pl/~buildcentos/centos-jigdo/ listing) iso file in the directory in which you run it. [If you have a local source of files you can skip the --noask and provide it when asked] Next step: get this included on the centos mirrors ;-) [hint hint] Afterwards: it would be nice to drop the iso files from the mirrors in their entirety and generate them on-the-fly using the JTE extensions package. Should be significant space-savings. [requires perl cgi in the hosting webserver, but should be very safe since it's all read-only access] Even later: it would be awesome if we could generate the jigdo/template during mkisofs (requires using a patched mkisofs). This would skip the slightly painful jigdo generation step (painful - because I have to download a local mirror of both the files and the CD/DVD images, much less painful to do it directly on the centos source/build system/mirrors) Both later steps are 95% there (the JTE jigit website/extensions/mkisofs patches/etc) and mostly require putting together rpms for EL4/5. (I'm going to be trying to put together a mkisofs-jte rpm which doesn't override the normal mkisofs rpm, but instead provides two files - /usr/bin/mkisofs-jte and it's manpage) This should also allow more customized images (like the rolled up updates) without increasing mirror space usage. Jigdo (combined with hardlinking identical files, which I believe is already done) should enable drastic reductions in centos HDD footprint. Comments? Cheers, Maciej Zenczykowski _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS-devel] Question re RPM Package Naming
by Les Bell 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

John Summerfield <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org> wrote: >> G'day Les, good to see you again, virtually speaking! << 'morning, John - you're up early! >> Note that the file name need not fully reflect the package name; the package could be el5.centos.i386.rpm and the file .el5.lesbell.i386.rpm << As I understand it, the package name will generally be a substring of the file name, and I'd certainly favour consistency here. E.g. filename pdftk-1.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm, once installed, will show up as pdftk-1.12-1.el5.centos. The way I've done this is simply to set the Release string in the spec file to be "1.el5.centos", but obviously I could automate this by defining some stuff in .rpmmacros or in /etc/rpm or somewhere. Anyway, at this point, I'm able to rebuild RPM's for my own setup (as I used to do for RH9 long after RH had given up on it). I just figured I'd get on top of the process of releasing stuff back to the community. In any case, it'll have to take a back seat for a couple of weeks, as I have a literature review due in next week as part of my progress towards my Masters thesis (would you believe, I've gone back to school?!), Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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