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KDE light?
by Niki Kovacs 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi, Allow me to shortly introduce myself, since I'm new to this list. I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat (South France). I'm in charge of computers (servers and desktops) in eleven small communities that migrate from Windows to Linux. Institutions like public libraries and town halls get networked, and every Windows installation is replaced by a GNU/Linux system. I had tested various (a dozen or so) distributions, and we finally settled with CentOS (both server and desktop), which we like very much. The current desktop we use is the default GNOME, and XFCE on older hardware. From time to time, I fiddle with the KDE desktop, and my impression is always the same: 1) it's great! 2) it's cluttered! KDE has a series of really great apps (Konqueror file manager, K3B, KMail, ...), but the problem is: it's not very modular. More often than not, one has to install a whole bunch of useless - and often redundant - apps in order to just have one little app. For example, in order to have the music player JuK, I would have to install kdemultimedia-extras, which gives me a whole lot of other players I will never use. I know I'm not the first to complain about this state of things, and various distributions have already taken steps to find a solution. Debian has broken up KDE packages, so you can install just the packages you want. Arch Linux has the kdemod project, which is great also. Gentoo does something similar, IIRC. And there's a german Slackware-based distribution called Pocket Linux which does just that: take the cholesterol out of KDE. So I just thought I would drop a note on the -devel list: to suggest a "KDE Light" project for CentOS. Ideally, I would have a minimal system and X11, and a simple 'yum groupinstall 'KDE Light'' would give me a minimal KDE desktop. I'm curious to have your opinions about this. Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Old kernel dependency for cluster suite
by Sebastian Walter 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear list, I'm trying to install the CentOS 4 Update 5 Cluster Suite including GFS. When I install the kernel modules cman, dlm, gnbd and GFS from the csgfs yum repository, I get the message that I need to downgrade to kernel 2.6.9-55.EL. As this kernel has problems with dlm I want to stay with my present kernel 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL (the problems only appear on very heavy load on GFS). Is it normal to only be able to run Cluster Suite on this (older) kernel? Is it the same regarding RedHat systems? Thanks for any answer! Regards, Sebastian

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Areca RAID drivers
by Phil Schaffner 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

I have a CentOS-4 server with an Areca RAID that I would like to update to CentOS-5. Have been building my own CentOS-4 RPMS based on bodgit-n-scarper SRPM, but that is a kludge of a spec file that needs to be hand-edited and rebuilt for each kernel. http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/download/centos4/SRPMS//kernel-module-arcms… Google found various interesting things for CentOS/EL-5: http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/26/p168 http://faq.areca.com.tw/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=303 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1958 http://www.ehoeve.com/Centos5-Experimental/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testin… Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. The only src.rpm I could turn up was the last link above, and I did get CentOS-5 x86_64 kmod-style drivers to build from that one. Found other indications that these drivers MIGHT be in the standard 5.1 kernel. Before I proceed with a roll-your-own approach again, I would like to inquire about the possibility of CentOS support for Areca RAID. Will Extras or Plus kernel support be forthcoming? Should I hold off for 5.1? Thanks, Phil

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Release farkage potential
by Karanbir Singh 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Does anyone have a clue as to what upstream are likely to be doing w.r.t the sub-release in a release situation ? As in, will there be a 5.0.1 and 5.1.0 ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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GFS Update for CentOS 3
by John Newbigin 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

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CentOS Errata
by Kevan Benson 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Is there an archival location (besides various mailing list archives) where I can find the CentOS errata? To clarify, I'm referring to the errata sent out on the announce list, which refers to updates to packages CentOS has modified from upstream. -- - Kevan Benson - A-1 Networks

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tinycdb package for both Centos 4.x/5.x
by Feizhou 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Source tarball as referenced in the spec file. http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb/tinycdb_0.76.tar.gz # $Id: tinycdb.spec,v 1.5 2006/06/28 18:04:30 mjt Exp $ # tinycdb RPM spec file. # # This file is a part of tinycdb package by Michael Tokarev, mjt(a)corpit.ru. # Public domain. Summary: A package for maintenance of constant databases Name: tinycdb Version: 0.76 Release: 1 Source: ftp://ftp.corpit.ru/pub/tinycdb/tinycdb_%version.tar.gz License: Public Domain Group: System Environment/Libraries Prefix: %{_prefix} BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root Summary: TinyCDB - a Constant DataBase %description tinycdb is a small, fast and reliable utility set and subroutine library for creating and reading constant databases. The database structure is tuned for fast reading: + Successful lookups take normally just two disk accesses. + Unsuccessful lookups take only one disk access. + Small disk space and memory size requirements; a database uses 2048 bytes for the header and 24 bytes plus size of (key,value) per record. + Maximum database size is 4GB; individual record size is not otherwise limited. + Portable file format. + Fast creation of new databases. + No locking, updates are atomical. This package contains both the utility and the development files, together with nss_cdb module. %package devel Summary: Development files for the tinycdb library. Group: System Environment/Libraries Requires: %name = %version-%release Summary: Development files for tinycdb %description devel tinycdb is a small, fast and reliable utility set and subroutine library for creating and reading constant databases. This package contains tinycdb development libraries and header files. %prep %setup -q %build make CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \ staticlib sharedlib cdb-shared nss \ sysconfdir=/etc %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %makeinstall DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT \ libdir=%_libdir bindir=%_bindir mandir=%_mandir \ syslibdir=/%_lib sysconfdir=/etc \ includedir=%_includedir \ install-all install-nss install-piclib install-sharedlib \ INSTALLPROG=cdb-shared CP="cp -p" %files %defattr(-,root,root) %_bindir/* %_mandir/man1/* %_mandir/man5/* %_libdir/libcdb.so.* /%_lib/libnss_cdb* /etc/cdb-Makefile %doc ChangeLog NEWS debian/changelog %files devel %defattr(-,root,root) %_libdir/libcdb.a %_libdir/libcdb_pic.a %_libdir/libcdb.so %_mandir/man3/* %_includedir/* %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %post -p /sbin/ldconfig %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig %changelog

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Interesting Centos 4.5 yum weirdness.
by Maciej Żenczykowski 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

I can't make heads or tails of this: # rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* # yum check-update Setting up repositories dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 fasttrack 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 csgfs 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 maze 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 2X 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 2X-extra 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 00:00 dries : ################################################## 4548/4548 Added 4548 new packages, deleted 0 old in 18.91 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 15 kB 00:00 fasttrack : ################################################## 33/33 Added 33 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.24 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 21 kB 00:00 csgfs : ################################################## 137/137 Added 137 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.49 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 52 kB 00:00 extras : ################################################## 212/212 Added 212 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.04 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 77 kB 00:00 maze : ################################################## 371/371 Added 371 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.42 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.6 MB 00:00 dag : ################################################## 6897/6897 Added 6897 new packages, deleted 0 old in 38.10 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB 00:00 2X : ################################################## 10/10 Added 10 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.20 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 95 kB 00:00 update : ################################################## 304/304 Added 304 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.23 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 580 kB 00:00 base : ################################################## 1518/1518 Added 1518 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.47 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00 2X-extra : ################################################## 2/2 Added 2 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.01 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B 00:00 Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.01 seconds perl-TermReadKey.i386 2.30-8 maze [root@tcs ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for perl-Term-ReadKey to pack into transaction set. perl-Term-ReadKey-2.30-2. 100% |=========================| 3.9 kB 00:00 ---> Package perl-Term-ReadKey.i386 0:2.30-2.2.el4.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: perl-Term-ReadKey i386 2.30-2.2.el4.rf dries 30 k replacing perl-TermReadKey.i386 2.30-3.el4.rf Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 30 k Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Complete! # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.5 (Final) # Note the apparent disagreement between update and check-update about what will actually be done (and no nothing has changed on the repositories in the mean-time, I've rerun it and cleared the yum cache and the problem persists). Is check-update using different logic than update? Maciej

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How is updated the csgfs repo in centos4?
by Roger Peña 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

hi I just came to wonderling how centos team update the csgfs repo, what is the procedure to do that ?. I use csgfs from centos and works great, thanks a lot for provide it :-) but how you know when uptream provide an update for the packages? I notice the last update because I read the rss alert feed but not because they use the redhat-announce list, neither centos send a messages when there is an update to centos-announce :-( right now I am facing the problem with a lacking of *-kernel packages in csgfs for the newest centos4's kernel; I can, and will, compile the srpms from uptreams for the new -55.0.6 kernel but I am just wonderling how others solve this problem... thanks roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified ( CCNA & CCDA ) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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qemu 0.9.0 in c5-testing
by Daniel de Kok 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

Hi all, A package for the qemu machine emulator/virtualizer is now available in CentOS testing for CentOS 5. qemu was added - Because the package contains qemu-img, a handy tool for creating and converting disk images (e.g. for KVM). - For full virtualization on i386 and x86_64 CPUs that don't have VT-X or AMD-V support. kqemu is required for optimal performance, we plan to provide a module package for kqemu in the near future. For the moment, testing can be oriented at using this (qemu-img in particular) in combination with KVM. Once the kqemu module packages are ready, we are also interested in qemu + kqemu testing results. Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the CentOS Wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Take care, Daniel

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