On 07/29/2015 10:23 AM, Digimer wrote:

On 29/07/15 12:45 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

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hi everyone,

I know this update has been a bit delayed, things have been pretty hectic. But lots of good updates for everyone:

Distro

• Updates for CentOS Linux 5/7 : All updates from upstream are

released into the CentOS mirror network.

• Upstream 6.7 was released a few days back, we have all the rpms from

that release built and released to the early-adopters into the CentOS-CR repos ( ref: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR ); lots of people have applied these updates and there are no major reports of issues so far. If you are one of the people running with CR, please let us know if you hit any issues.

• Updates released to EL6 since 6.7 was released are also rolled into

CR/ so if you are running this repo, you would be updated all the way.

• We have a first cut of the ISOS for CentOS-6.7 ready and in QA, there

are a couple of package changes, and we need to tweak the content that ends up on DVD1 Vs/ DVD2 to make sure we can still retain max installs from just DVD1. I aim to have these done and available to the QA folks in the next day or two, with the intention to release early next week to mirror.centos.org.

• Another key piece that we've been working on is the AltArch SIG; The

aim of this Special Interest Group is to help build and help maintain CentOS Linux on other architectures than what the Core group is able to do. Our first major build there is for the ARM 64bit platform called Aarch64. CentOS Linux 7 has been in beta there for a few weeks and is nearing the end of the beta term. If you have an ARM 64 bit platform, we would appreciate feedback on the distro. ref: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2015-July/000309.html

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Other:

• the SCL sig has been making great progress, we now have their use

cases fully supported in cbs.centos.org; Honza posted an update recently on their status for the devtools-3 effort at : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-July/013682.html

• Some of our GSoC Students have been blogging at

http://seven.centos.org about their projects and the great work they are doing in their areas. Its worth a read through.

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Tip: there are some great installation tips and tricks on the wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart - and we maintain a collection of community contributed kickstarts at https://github.com/CentOS/Community-Kickstarts - its a great resource to get ideas for your own kickstarts, and also a fantastic place, with a low barrier for people to contribute their own tips and kickstarts!

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Engage: As some of you might already know, I've been running office hours every Wed at 16:00 UTC and every Thu at 08:30 UTC over in #centos-devel on irc.freenode.net; you also have the option to call me on the phone for a chat during these times. The last few weeks have been really fruitful, with many great conversations. If there is anything you want to talk about or have questions around the CentOS ecosystem, feel free to drop in. Office hours are run as a open house, free question and answer sessions.

regards,

Thanks for taking the time to send this update. As a user, it is reassuring to hear how progress is coming behind the scenes.

Yes it is! :)

On 29/07/15 22:04, Peter wrote:

On 07/30/2015 07:13 AM, Zdenek Sedlak wrote:

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BTW do you have any news about the CentOS 7 32-bit, discussed some time around CentOS 7 release?

Yes, there's a beta out for the past month or so: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-June/013426.html

the biggest blocker to going GA on the x86 build is the kernel; the distro kernel we end up with isnt going to be the same as the upstream x86_64 kernel configs. However, there hasent been a huge level of feedback ( either positive or negative ) around those builds. So if you are using it, or are interested in using it - do take the distro out for a spin and let us know!

Regards,

On 07/30/2015 11:20 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:

I'm pretty sure that I posted this back when the beta was announced, but it seems to work just fine on my fanless VIA C7 firewall/router/proxy/ IPA/CUPS/Asterisk box. I've been waiting impatiently for this to go GA ever since, so I can start seriously bugging the EPEL guys.

I've been trying to bug them, but they don't seem to be interested to even look into it until CentOS 7 goes to GA.

Anyways, if you're interested in it now, I've rebuilt *some* of the epel packages for i686 here (just for my personal use but I make them available in case someone else might benefit): http://pajamian.dhs.org/repos/el/7/epel/i386/

On 07/30/2015 09:00 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

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Re the kernel, how do the Springdale/PUIAS handle this issue? It might be worth copying their approach and/or coordinating.

I dont believe they do either, they are disabling/enableing stuff in the kernel's to be different from the x86_64 upsteam as well.

I downloaded both the CentOS and puias kernel-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.i686.rpm packages, unpacked them and diffed the config-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.i686 included in each, they are identical so it appears that puias has done *exactly* the same thing as CentOS to get the latest kernel to work.

the real issue here is that if i386 ships with a different feature and capabilities spec : will it matter ?

It might, but consider that if you're disabling a feature that is simply not supported on 32 bit CPUs then someone using the 32 bit build can't exactly complain if the kernel doesn't support it. If it is available, though, and just needs a bit of tweaking to get it to build for i386 then I would support keeping the feature and getting it to work so that the i386 kernel is as feature-compatible with the x86_64 as is reasonably possible.

The answer might lay in exactly what is enabled / disabled - but since noone has come back so far with a 'this does not work for me', the assumption we might (should?) run with is that its marked as an AltArch, and delivers its own feature set regardless of what is in RHEL-7.

I'd rather have a kernel and build that works, but is missing a feature than nothing at all.

Peter