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Do hope to meet admin of centos.org, do hope someone could help me
by Lee Nathanael 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

I want to make contribute to centos.org.cn for centos website in China #1 Hi,all developers. I am sorry that I take this topic here because it is so difficult for me to find the right person who will help me for contribution in China. First of all,I want make some self-introduction. I am a professional Community and Website COO in China. My name is as registered Nathanael.At present,I have obtained more than 10 years of Administration and Operation for website and community.In 2008, I have been rewarded by Microsoft for Community Influencer Certificate. Now I am a system and network engineer in Chongqing province ,China. Because I was graduated from English major, I tried my best to help others to learn more.I have found that there are so many centos users in China and most of them need somewhere to find what they want. That's why I make my determination to contact your website and do hope to make contribute for http://www.centos.org.cn, setting up one useful Chinese site for Centos information and community. It is so difficult to express all details for my opinion and plan for centos.org.cn in China.*I do really hope there will be some staff of your site can contact me*.The following information are my contact way.Do really hope to contact you by MSN or other ways. My AIM: haowei2008 My ICQ: 439013358 My MSN: nathanael(AT)msn(DOT)cn My E-mail:benedict2004(AT)126(DOT)com Best Regards for all of you,

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build-from-scratch: SRPM Build order now working
by "Brian Schüler" 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi folks, Calculating the build order out of a set of source RPMs is now possible (even with BuildRequires from sources which are not included). The little trick rpm -E "`cat foo.spec`" did it. Special thanks to Jeff J.! But I have to shorten the output to the essentials because 'rpm' is crashing when the output of the spec file is too long. Here an example for alsa-lib package: [root@centosmirror alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5]# rpm -E "`cat alsa-lib.spec`" *** buffer overflow detected ***: rpm terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x2f)[0x300fee55ff] /usr/lib64/librpmio-4.4.so(rpmExpand+0x66)[0x3011e1a2f6] /usr/lib64/librpm-4.4.so[0x3012622d1c] /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0[0x301b4023e0] /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0[0x301b402419] /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0(poptGetNextOpt+0x402)[0x301b403242] rpm[0x403779] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x300fe1d8b4] rpm[0x4034c9] - build-from-scratch only need a subdirectory called SRPMS with source packages and their additional (not included in CentOS-base) dependencies in. The packages are built on a (remote) mock build server where the ssh-agent must be running and the build server's key added to avoid interaction. The resulting sub directory (i.e. i386) must be published on a http server just-in-time to make it accessible for the mock build server. build-from-scratch checks the setting of the build server, then it calculates the build-order and does some sanity checks on the SRPMs. After that it begins to compile all SRPMs each in a clean build root in the right order. Build errors and dependency lacks are reported on the __BAD subdirectory within the output directory. This is also a great tool for writing high-quality .spec-files. Build-from-scratch can be downloaded from: http://c.dyndns.org/brian/pub/centos/5/tools/ (it needs createrepo and httpd installed.) My hint: Please read it with care before executing. VDR (the digital video disk recorder) is now completely mock-buildable on CentOS-5 and may be added to a contrib-testing-like repository (it is located at http://c.dyndns.org/brian/pub/centos/5/vdr) RPMforge does only accept .spec files where the original URLs to the source tarballs have partially been vanished or are changing in the future (which is not a good idea, I think). So I would have to get storage space there. I hope the build order calculation function helps accelerating the build process for the people who build CentOS and packages for it. Greetings, Brian. -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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OpenLDAP 2.4 for CentOS 4 & 5
by Jeff Sheltren 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've built openldap 2.4.11 packages for el4 and el5. These include compat packages for openldap 2.2 and 2.3, respectively. Since openldap 2.4 has a lot of enhancements over 2.3, I thought it may be valuable to have in ie. the centosplus repo. Also, having the same version of openldap available for centos4 and centos5 may be nice for people. What do you think? The 2.4 release announcement outlines many of the features and can be found here: http://www.openldap.org/software/release/announce.html Please review the packages/spec files found here: http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/ Checksums for the rpms are here signed with my gpg key: http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/checksums.txt Any questions/feedback welcome :) I've tested the EL5 clients/server/ compat out and it seems OK, but I'd appreciate if someone could test on CentOS-4... Thanks, Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkirAQ4ACgkQKe7MLJjUbNP09gCfSDWay7chmjae9yAkd8sASMIp HqEAnA9op8qYabkF4Wvuo2Cg0SVCCH1F =Xyl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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centos5 on s390 - desperately need build instructions
by Hand, Ray 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

I am looking for instructions on how to build Centos5 on the s390 platform. I am new to building a distribution but I have the hardware and a base Centos 4.6 to build from. I requested this assistance last November and still have not received any instructions. Please Help!! Thanks, Ray Hand

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building rhwas 5 srpms
by Joe Pruett 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

i am going to build up the non-java rhwas stuff for centos 5. one thing i've never known is how to figure out what --define or other switches that should be used for the rpmbuild to match what rh does. is there a way to query a rh binary rpm to find out?

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build-from-scratch: pre-processor/parser for .spec files?
by "Brian Schüler" 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Hi, does anybody know a tool/script which pre-processes/parse and dumps a .spec file with preloaded RPM macros? I'm working on a script which will build a set of source RPMs (or even a whole distribution) on a mock build server. The aim of it is to get well defined source RPMs with exact requirements (BuildReqs and Requres by running installation tests in mock in conjunction with ldd on multilib systems). The goal of this is to get all Packages mock-buildable and "certified". I will have to shorten the build duration by calculating the package order with correlation algorythms on the package names. But there are cases where correlation does not work - especially when SRPMs creates packages named different (e.g. mplayer(src) creates mencoder(bin)) and when scanning for "%files" or "%files -n" in the .spec returns unresolved macros. (Example: %files -n vdr-%{pname}-server) When my build-from-scratch script is finished I will release it to the CentOS project, because it will be very important for automation and shorten the release time when (re)building the Distro. Current features: - Building binary packages from SRPMS (in a repository) on a mock server via ssh - Creating root-logs, build-logs and missingdeps-logs - Bypassing bad packages (missdeps, build-failures) on next turns - Semi-"brute-force"-build: re-running as so long as no more packages are built. Planned features: - Certification tests (post-install tests, respin/updates integration tests) - Handling cross-build issues in RPM - Exact build order and circular dependencies detection. I think the solution for my problem can be found in the internals of the rpmbuild utility - if someone has a hint or solution of a .spec parser, he/she is welcome (Google did not satisfy me right now). Thanks in advice Brian -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) is needed but I cannot find it in CentOS 5.2
by Erez Zilber 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.2. I wrote a program that uses rtkaio (so my Makefile contains -lrtkaio). The program runs successfully. The problem began when I wanted to create a rpm for my program. I was able to generate a binary rpm, but when I tried to install it, I got the following error: [root@klab002 tmp]# rpm -i /tmp/mypkg-1.0.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) is needed by mypkg-1.0.x86_64.rpm I checked the dependencies: [root@klab002 tmp]# rpm -qRp /tmp/mypkg-1.0.x86_64.rpm /bin/bash /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /usr/bin/python libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) libnickel.so()(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2)(64bit) rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rtld(GNU_HASH The problem is that librtkaio uses GLIBC_PRIVATE: [root@klab002 tmp]$ nm /lib/rtkaio/librtkaio-2.5.so | grep PRIVATE U __libc_dlopen_mode@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __libc_dlsym@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __libc_fatal@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __libc_pwrite@@GLIBC_PRIVATE w __pthread_clock_gettime@@GLIBC_PRIVATE w __pthread_clock_settime@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U __pthread_unwind@@GLIBC_PRIVATE U _rtld_global@@GLIBC_PRIVATE But I couldn't find where these symbols are defined (e.g. __libc_pwrite@@GLIBC_PRIVATE). The workaround that I found is to add the following line to the spec file: "provides: libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)" I guess that there should be a better solution for that. Any idea? Thanks, Erez

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CentOS Forums again
by Tim Verhoeven 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hello everyone, Having some time to do stuff for CentOS here at LinuxTag I've also being building FreeIPA packages for CentOS. The idea that this will be core part of a central authentication system. Meaning that you will only need 1 account that you can use to login into the website, forum, wiki, bugtracker, systems, ... IMHO the most important system that needs to be attached to the central auth database are the forums. There are a lot of users there (and a lot of content). So I was thinking, why not fix 2 things at the same time. Migrate from the old forum to the new forum that is linked to the central auth system. And then later on couple the other existing apps to it. My feeling is that the most productive way to get forward with the website/forum update is to split the forum from the website. In my experience the forum present in CMS tools aren't made for the amount of traffic we are having. So something dedicated sound like a better option. So I have been looking around for open source forum software that link to ldap without to much effort. I've looked at 3 projects (Phorum, phpBB and SMF). They all 3 are good looking, well featured and maintained. Though, only phpBB has a decent built-in LDAP integration (FreeIPA is built on top of LDAP). So my proposal is to setup a FreeIPA instance, link it with phpBB and try to migrate a part of the current forums and see how all that works. And if it looks good migrate to that. So what do people think, did I miss stuff, other suggestions, ... Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be(a)gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)

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Artwork Project
by Alain Reguera Delgado 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, We have put on the wiki some workarounds about CentOS image rendering, a proposition to manage translation in a common point (using svn), and a new motive design (for CentOS 5.3 maybe). Also: - the wiki theme has been updated. - a trac theme has been created. (for our project trac site) - a new browser default page is proposed. - customized apache errors design is proposed to install on our web servers. - some minor modifications to the default Apache test page is proposed. - some powered by CentOS images were created. Here is the work, for your consideration (see Miscellaneous section): http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork Could it have a space on projects.centos.org, and a svn repo for others to collaborate ? what we need to get it there ? Note: We are still working on this, we put it online for you to test and if possible receive some feedback of how make this more useful and to keep focused on what we really need. If this is completely useless say it too. Please, any comment, suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, al.

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perl-devel package
by Kenneth Porter 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5. I knew it wouldn't be in the CentOS repos (although I checked anyway) so I went looking in Fedora Rawhide and pulled down the SRPM I found there. I attempted to build it and it failed due to a missing "perl-devel" package. Some investigation indicates that somewhere in Fedora's history the headers and development utilities in Perl got broken out into a separate subpackage. It looks like this happened at 5.8.8-15. This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and depends on the existing perl package?

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