On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Dag Wieers wrote:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Ryan Sweet wrote:

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I'm a Centos user in Brussels, BE. I'll be going to the FOSDEM conference next weekend and I was thinking about printing up and giving out centos CDs while there.

1. any other centos folks going to be at FOSDEM?

I will be there, albeit very busy with other things.

yes, well you are a celebrity ;-)

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2. any guidelines for printing CD's - I can only run 50 or 100...

I think it's more important to have flyers with a basic description of CentOS, the important characteristics and a URL where they can get more inbformation. And on FOSDEM a bigger poster will probably be even more helpful as you'll have a crowd everywhere and people may not notice you :))

OK, that makes sense I guess. I wouldn't have a booth or anything - its not that sort of show - I was just thinking of leaving them on the table with the the other "free stuff" goodies or passing them out at one of the BOF sessions. I _might_ be able to convince someone to let me use their stuff to print a flyer though. Does anyone have such a flyer ready? Matt Sheilds mentions one in his article from LinuxWorld.

-ryan

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Matt Shields wrote:

Good point, I've added that to my article as well. Here's the flyer: http://masnetworks.biz/flyer.png

Hmm, I see from reading the blurb on CENTOS in your document that the whole trademark issue with they-who-shall-not-be-named makes explaining CentOS a lot more difficult.

On Monday, 21 February 2005, at 18:42:10 (+0100), Ryan Sweet wrote:

Hmm, I see from reading the blurb on CENTOS in your document that the whole trademark issue with they-who-shall-not-be-named makes explaining CentOS a lot more difficult.

Explaining CentOS in conversation at a trade show is perfectly okay.

Michael

I took the extremely conservative view and didn't bring up RH at all. If the person asked me if it was based on RH, then I agreed.

And that would be me...

I do however normally go over everything and only toss what isn't of value to me. The goodies I keep or give to family/friends. :D

Isn't that was a tradeshow is all about... trading what I grabbed from the show?!

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:46:11 -0500, Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:

A lot of people take anything that's free at tradeshows.

Am Mo, den 21.02.2005 schrieb first last um 18:32:

Is there any way to find out what packages come from where? I have a mixed CentOS with some Fedora updates (i know, I was just trying to add ardour and a couple of multimedia programs so I can ditch windows), but it has now become unstable, so I'd like to know what packages did I get from fedora.

rpm -qa --qf "%{packager} - %{name} %{version} - %{arch}\n" | sort' > /tmp/pkglist.txt

less /tmp/pkglist.txt

Gabriel

Alexander

first last wrote:

Is there any way to find out what packages come from where? I have a mixed CentOS with some Fedora updates (i know, I was just trying to add ardour and a couple of multimedia programs so I can ditch windows), but it has now become unstable, so I'd like to know what packages did I get from fedora.

try this command : ( all on one line )

for f in `rpm -qa` ; do echo -n $f ; rpm --qf " %{VENDOR} %{DISTRIBUTION} \n" -q $f ; done

this should tell you where the packages installed on your machine came from.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Anne Possoz wrote:

Karanbir Singh wrote:

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try this command : ( all on one line )

for f in `rpm -qa` ; do echo -n $f ; rpm --qf " %{VENDOR} %{DISTRIBUTION} \n" -q $f ; done

this should tell you where the packages installed on your machine came from.

I use 2 nice commands:

bin/rpm-q.dates (which sort rpms by installation time) :

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{installtime} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%-10{arch} %{installtime:date}\n"|sort -n|sed -e 's/^[^ ]* //'

(less usefull now that /var/log/yum.log is available but easiest to read, for me at least)

Almost similar to:

rpm -qa --last

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S.Tux wrote: | Hello List, | | I'm planning to install CentOS 4 RC1 to one of my production server | (hey I can't wait till the Final version); my quick question is: Can I | update it safely (thru yum) until the Final version and dot versions | consequently? Will I have same stability just like the Final Versions | since I'll keep my system updated thru yum. | | Please advice.

You should be able to easily upgrade from RC1 to final. However we may not release any pending Errata from the upstream vendor between now and the release of CentOS 4.0 {arch} Final. Mainly depends on where we are in the rebuild, respin, prerelease testing of a given {arch} Final release.

(not speaking in an official capacity -- but based on current feedback it looks unlikely that we will have any RC2 releases.)

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