On Nov 8, 2007 9:10 AM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@cs.sfu.ca wrote:

Akemi Yagi wrote:

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On Nov 8, 2007 1:12 AM, Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de wrote:

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Hi all,

now that EL5.1 is out the big question is when will Centos 5.1 be out. I know the answer, when it's ready.

According to KB, the target is "in a couple of weeks". By the way, there are answers to that question other than "when it's ready" :

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11128&forum=3...

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But how is status of the problems described here? http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007/10/29/so_when_is_5_1_due

Thx Rainer

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Does this also mean that the CentOS 5 IA64 port will now be CentOS 5.1 IA64 instead?

I'm still waiting on this and am hoping it will be ready soon. I'm planning a migration from OpenSuse 10.0 to CentOS 5 this December if possible.

I do not think that the IA64 port will be out by December. I am not sure if there is a core developer who can work on IA64 fulltime to deal with all the headaches that keep showing up. [IA64 seems to be the Alpha architecture of today..]

Karanbir Singh wrote:

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by CentOS-5 IA64 port being 5.1 ??? All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle.

This was more a question of whether the CentOS 5.0 build would just be skipped in place of a 5.1 build since there has not yet been a CentOS 5.0 build for IA64 released yet. So with that said "All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle" isn't really all that accurate. :)

Anyway, once we get the release out - the updates on IA64 will track i386/x86_64 very closely ( prolly in sync ). This does depend on hardware availability. At the moment we have 2 cores churning out the _entire_ IA64 stuff. And we dont really have failover capability. So if someone has IA64 h/w around that they want to donate, it would be much welcome.

Trust me, if my SGI Altix machines weren't being used right now to do real work I would happily allow you to build on them. I'm sure that 96 processors and 96GB of memory could be of some use. If there is a way that they could be I would be happy to schedule my own time on them to help out.

err ? There will be a 5.1 IA64 release within 2 to 3 weeks of i686/x86_64 going out to the mirrors. We have IA64 availability within the buildsystem and tracking buildqueues.

I am saying 2 to 3 weeks, just so we get the bandwidth to test this thing a bit.

No problems, and if I can help out in any way please don't hesitate to contact me off list.

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:38:11 -0800 "James A. Peltier" jpeltier@cs.sfu.ca wrote:

This was more a question of whether the CentOS 5.0 build would just be skipped in place of a 5.1 build since there has not yet been a CentOS 5.0 build for IA64 released yet. So with that said "All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle" isn't really all that accurate. :)

This is somewhat related to the status of 5.1.

Is 5.1 identical to 5.0 + all the yum updates? or is there some extra stuff? or almost the same...

On Nov 8, 2007 10:28 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

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Does this also mean that the CentOS 5 IA64 port will now be CentOS 5.1 IA64 instead?

I am not sure what you mean by CentOS-5 IA64 port being 5.1 ??? All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle.

I am very sorry.. but for some reason my brain and my fingers are not connected... I kept reading IA64 as PPC and was thus talking out my ass. My apologies.