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?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell(a)gmail.com
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 ?
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
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
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Jim Perrin
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
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Jim Perrin
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
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Jim Perrin
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
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Jim Perrin
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
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/
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Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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.
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Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
> NOTE: This will not run currently with the CentOS Plus kernel, as XFS
> is already compiled as a module on that kernel.
>
> After some testing here (if all goes well), a new CentOS Plus kernel
> w/out XFS will be compiled and this code will also be moved (with
> instructions) to the CentOSPLus repo.
I would personally prefer if this XFS code could be merged into the
CentOS Plus kernel. Having it as a separate RPM is a bit messy.
If anyone is interested, I've done this and it's available as a patch to
the existing kernel-2.6.9-22.0.1.106.unsupported.src.rpm via:
http://home.btconnect.com/james/centos4/
BTW: what is the significance of '106' in the unsupported kernel name?
James Pearson