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CentOS Plus / CentOS Extras Policy
by Karanbir Singh 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

We need to work out format / policy for pkgs built and hosted in the CentOS Extras / CentOS Plus Testing area -> Stable repository. One option is to move pkgs by Time-Default. Under this setup, once announced in the centos-devel list, after 14 days the pkgs are moved into the stable repositories. The time issue is arbitary, I feel 14 days is 'long enough'. If its too long we can shorten it to 7 days ? Would that give enough time to find major issues ? Second option, would be to raise a bugs.centos.org issue for each pkg - and ask for feedback on the issue tracker. Moving the package from Testing to Stable would required a fixed number of positive responders. eg. 5 people need to confirm it works ? Third option would be to leave it upto the packager / builder to decide when its ok to move things over from Testing -> Stable. However, in lots of cases, pkgers are busy. And to be honest, unless the pkger thinks its OK, the pkg would not be in Testing anyway. I prefer if other people were to be involved in the test process as well. Suggestions ? Comments ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Missing .src.rpm
by John Newbigin 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

RedHat recently released 2 errata for EL2.1. They provide links to their ftp site but as yet the files are not there ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/netpbm-9.24-9.AS21.6.… ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/xpdf-0.92-17.src.rpm The Australian mirror which I used to use has also stopped mirroring the 2.1AS directory and I am yet to find a suitable replacement. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do? John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Errata release system
by Connie Sieh 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Centos-devel, Do you have scripts/code to harvest RedHat SRPMS for errata? Rebuild the .src.rpms and then send out email with the "technical" details included? Trying to automate our release system more than it is now. Thanks -Connie Sieh Scientific Linux Developer

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python 2.3 for CentOS-3 i386 and x86_64 now in Testing
by Tru Huynh 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Python 2.3 (python2.3) is now available for CentOS-3 on i386 and x86_64 in the Testing repository. -------------------------------------------------------------- Name : python2.3 Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.3.4 Vendor: CentOS Release : 14.1.centos3.1 Build Date: Fri 02 Dec 2005 01:45:12 AM CET Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: sillage.bis.pasteur.fr Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: (none) Size : 7575362 License: PSF - see LICENSE Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 06 Dec 2005 12:44:36 PM CET, Key ID 5c37c0b17203f491 URL : http://www.python.org/ Summary : An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description : Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC). Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget set for Tk and RPM. Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package. -------------------------------------------------------------- <changelog> * Wed Apr 20 2005 Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> 2.3.4-14.1.centos3.1 - patched from centos4-> centos3 - . db4.1 instead of db4.2 - . name python -> python2.3 - . tkinter2.3 required * Wed Feb 02 2005 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-14.1 <...> </changelog> http://dev.centos.org/centos/3/testing/{i386,x86_64,SRPMS} -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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CentOS art
by Sherman Boyd 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hi, I'm interested in working on some of the CentOS art. Does anyone have a list of what needs to be done? -- Best regards, Sherman Boyd

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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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