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CentOS install CD bootlogo
by Sherman Boyd 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi, I'm working on cleaning up the bootlogo for CentOS. I just finished and I'm dead tired, but since I didn't find very good documentation on some of this stuff with a google search I wanted to document what I did: First I took some of the standard artwork and cleaned it up in gimp. I saved the image to a 640x300 14 color ppm. Looking at the .msg files under the /isolinux directory I was able to figure out that redhat actually uses 7 different text colors in it's menu. Each color has a corresponding hex code that specifies which of the sixteen colors in splash.lss to use. I matched them up as close as possible, and converted the ppm to an lss: ppmtolss16 "#000100=0" "#7b5b89=9" "#e5dde8=7" "#ffffff=15" "#ff020a=2" "#f1aa23=12" "#9ad02d=10" <centos-boot-clean.ppm >splash.lss Here is the end result: http://www.mitosys.com/images/splash.lss Hope you like it. The f7 anaconda looks good eh! -- Best regards, Sherman Boyd

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Centos4/Centos3 filesystem difference?
by Les Mikesell 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I restored a tar backup of a Centos3 x86_64 box using a Centos4 x86 machine to format the disk and untar the files. Then I used the install cd to install grub on the actual machine but when it booted it said the filesystem had errors and fsck refused to fix them because the filesystem had newer features. Is there a way to make a backwards-compatible filesystem in the newer version and is the difference documented somewhere? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Mailing List issues
by Karanbir Singh 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi, We all know that something needs to be done about the signal to noise issue on the CentOS Mailing List. Traffic is something we can all live with, and is a good sign - the Project is getting popular - but the s/n ratio seems to be going down the wrong path. To blame might have been an odd few people, but looking at the list in its present shape - we seem to have developed a general mindset thats contributing to the issues. But whats the problem : 1. Drive by postings - people read a post, reply irrelevant content 2. General mindset of no moderation - 3. Thread deviation - almost every thread seems to be getting blown into a few directions 4. OverDose of content - A question of 'bootloader not working' becomes 'zen and the art of bootloader design'. What can we do about this situation ? The options that seem to exist : Kick off a few people, tell them to leave ? Moderate the entire list ? Establish some form of moderation and enforce it - but dont moderate the entire list. Also, do we need to - at this stage, look at splitting the CentOS list into some subject focused Lists ? Traffic is on the rise - and will continue to do so, which I consider a good thing. Do we at this stage now want to split some of this traffic up ? If so - what subjects / directions are we going to need ? Lets try and think about things as they would be 12 months down the road and 24 / 36 months away, what do we need to do to prep for that ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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phpMyAdmin-2.7.0 testing rpm is now available for i386 or x86_64
by Jim Perrin 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

The following rpm is now available in the c4-testing repository: phpMyAdmin-2.7.0-1.c4.noarch.rpm For security reasons, a phpmyadmin.conf file has been created for /etc/httpd/conf.d/ Currently this restricts phpmyadmin to https, and makes it only available to 127.0.0.1. This forces the user to relax permissions if they require, but should keep a default install reasonably secure. These are all available for install via "yum --enablerepo c4-testing install $APPNAME", or if you don't have the testing repository installed, you can get the .repo file from http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo -- Jim Perrin

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procinfo testing rpm is now available for i386 or x86_64
by Jim Perrin 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

The following rpm is now available in the c4-testing repository: procinfo-18-16.c4.i386.rpm These are all available for install via "yum --enablerepo c4-testing install $APPNAME", or if you don't have the testing repository installed, you can get the .repo file from http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo -- Jim Perrin

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Ruby 1.8.3 testing rpms are available now for i386 and x86_64
by Jim Perrin 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

The following new packages have been added to the c4-testing repository: irb-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm rdoc-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ri-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ruby-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ruby-devel-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ruby-docs-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ruby-libs-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ruby-mode-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm ruby-tcltk-1.8.3-2.c4.i386.rpm These are all available for install via "yum --enablerepo c4-testing install $APPNAME", or if you don't have the testing repository installed, you can get the .repo file from http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo -- Jim Perrin

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Postgresql-8.1 testing rpms are now available for i386 and x86_64
by Jim Perrin 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

New RPMS are available in the c4-testing repository! New packages are: compat-postgresql-libs-3-3.c4.centos.i386.rpm postgresql-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-contrib-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-devel-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-docs-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-jdbc-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-libs-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-odbc-08.01.0100-1.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-pl-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-python-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-server-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-tcl-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm postgresql-test-8.1.0-4.c4.i386.rpm Keep in mind this is a large upgrade. If you have an existing postgresql database, it is recommended that you stop your current install of postgresql, do a dump, install, start, and restore. For more information about upgrading please visit www.postgresql.org, or #postgresql on irc.freenode.net These are all available for install via "yum --enablerepo c4-testing install $APPNAME", or if you don't have the testing repository installed, you can get the .repo file from http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo -- Jim Perrin

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glibc.spec patch for Xen compatibility/repo
by Michael Best 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

The version of glibc that comes in the Xen-3.0 binary release is 2.3.4-2.9 and is outdated by the new glibc package 2.3.4-2.13 this is a patch to the glibc-2.3.4-2.13.src.rpm to build an up to date xen compatible glibc. To be added to a Xen repository, something like the test repo: http://www.karan.org/mock/Xen/i386/ --- glibc-2.3.4-2.13.spec 2005-12-05 10:27:53.000000000 -0700 +++ glibc.spec 2005-12-05 09:35:08.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ %define glibcdate 20050704T1133 %define glibcname glibc-2.3 %define glibcversion 2.3.4 -%define glibcrelease 2.13 +%define glibcrelease 2.13.xen.0 %define auxarches i586 i686 athlon sparcv9 alphaev6 %define prelinkarches noarch %define nptlarches i386 i686 athlon x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x sparcv9 ppc ppc64 @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ mkdir build-%{_target_cpu}-linux ; cd build-%{_target_cpu}-linux GCC=gcc %ifarch %{ix86} -BuildFlags="-march=%{_target_cpu}" +BuildFlags="-march=%{_target_cpu} -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" %endif %ifarch alphaev6 BuildFlags="-mcpu=ev6" @@ -1393,6 +1393,9 @@ %endif %changelog +* Mon Dec 5 2005 Michael Best <mbest(a)pendragon.org> 2.3.4-2.13.xen.0 +- glibc compatability for Xen, added BuildFlag -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs + * Fri Aug 19 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-2.13 - change sys/quota.h to default to -D_LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION=1. If you want to use sys/quota.h for the quota ABI that is actually

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mysql5 and friends now available in the testing repository.
by Jim Perrin 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

MySQL5 and associated packages are now available in the c4-testing repository for i386 and x86_64. It should be fully compatible with current centos4 packages requiring mysql, such as php-mysql etc. Feedback is appreciated. c4-testing repository located here -> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/ -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center

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yum-utils-plugins and yum-utils
by Johnny Hughes 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

All, In an effort to better distribute files for our users, we have been working with some of the yum-utils-plugins from the yum website. Specifically, we have done some work with protectbase and fastestmirror. Here is the wiki concerning yum plugins: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumPlugins We are currently testing these plugins, and they seem to work well. After a couple weeks of testing, we will move these into the main CentOS tree. Attached is the readme file for the new yum-utils-plugins RPM. If you want to test these plugins, they are currently in the dev.centos.org testing repo ... do this to test: 1. Download the file repo file and put it in /etc/yum.repos.d/ http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo 2. Install yum-utils and yum-utils-plugins with this command: yum --enable=c4-testing install yum-utils yum-utils-plugins 3. Enable plugins in yum by editing the file /etc/yum.conf and adding this line: plugins=1 4. To use the protectbase plugin, edit your repos in /etc/yum.repo.d/ and add the following lines to repos you wish to protect (ie, the Official CentOS repos): protect=1 and add the following to third party (or other repos) which you want to use, but do not want to update/upgrade packages that are part of the protected repos: protect=0 see the attached readme file for an example. 5. To use the fastestmirror plugin, make sure you have the plugins=1 in /etc/yum.conf (see number 4. above) and then edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/ repos and add more than 1 mirror (as baseurl= ) for some of your repos ... see the attached readme file for some examples. Currently, the verbose setting is high for fastestmirror ... you may adjust that in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf. We will probably make this verbose=0 on final release. 6. There are other plugins that are not enabled by default .... you can see all the plugins in /usr/share/doc/yum-utils-0.3.1/plugins To enable a plugin that is not currently enabled, copy the .py file from it's directory to /usr/lib/yum-plugins/ and it's .conf file to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ (and make sure that /etc/yum.conf has a plugins=1 line in it) yum-utils is also installed. See the README in /usr/share/doc/yum- utils/ for all the commands you can do with yum-utils. ---------- Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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