[CentOS] problems in centos-5.6

Tue Apr 12 22:36:15 UTC 2011
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>

hi,
i try to collect the problems, bugs and 'strange' things in current
centos-5.6 release:

os/i386 these shouldn't have to be there (they are from older release):
kmod-gfs-0.1.34-12
kmod-gfs-PAE-0.1.34-12
kmod-gfs-xen-0.1.34-12
centos-release-notes-5.5-0

updates/i386 these shouldn't have to be there (they are already in os):
libtdb-1.2.1-5.el5.i386
libtdb-devel-1.2.1-5.el5.i386
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.8.i386
tdb-tools-1.2.1-5.el5.i386
virt-manager-0.6.1-13.el5.i386

os/x86_64 these shouldn't have to be there (they are already in os):
etherboot-pxes-5.4.4-13.el5.x86_64
etherboot-roms-5.4.4-13.el5.x86_64
etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.x86_64
etherboot-zroms-5.4.4-13.el5.x86_64
etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.x86_64
libtdb-1.2.1-5.el5.x86_64
libtdb-devel-1.2.1-5.el5.x86_64
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.8.x86_64
tdb-tools-1.2.1-5.el5.x86_64
virt-manager-0.6.1-13.el5.x86_64

anaconda different in i386 and x86_64 either both should have to be
anaconda-11.1.2.224-1.el5.centos or both should have to be
anaconda-11.1.2.224-1.el5.centos.1

in centos version of these packages the dist tag comes from earlier
release. even if they are the same package they should have to rebuild
with the same dist tag as in rhel (eg: .el5 <-> .el5_4):
bogl-0.1.18-13.el5_4
bogl-bterm-0.1.18-13.el5_4
bogl-devel-0.1.18-13.el5_4
ctdb-1.0.112-1.el5_5
ctdb-devel-1.0.112-1.el5_5
gail-1.9.2-3.el5_4
gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5_4
pax-3.4-2.el5_4
taskjuggler-2.2.0-5.el5_4
vino-2.13.5-9.el5_4

and a lots of updates still missing:
cman-2.0.115-68.el5_6.1
conga-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1
dhcp-3.0.5-23.el5_6.4
giflib-4.1.3-7.3.3.el5
glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.17.b17.el5
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.18.b17.el5
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.20.b17.el5
jwhois-3.2.3-12.el5
kexec-tools-1.102pre-126.el5_6.4
libuser-0.54.7-2.1.el5_5.2
libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.1
mod_nss-1.0.8-4.el5_6.1
opensm-3.3.3-1.el5_6.1
openssh-4.3p2-72.el5_6.3
openswan-2.6.21-5.el5_6.4
pango-1.14.9-8.el5_6.2
paps-0.6.6-20.el5
postfix-2.3.3-2.2.el5_6
quota-3.13-5.el5
screen-4.0.3-4.el5
sed-4.1.5-8.el5
spice-xpi-2.2-2.3.el5_6.1
subversion-1.6.11-7.el5_6.1
subversion-1.6.11-7.el5_6.3
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6
tzdata-2011d-3.el5
w3m-0.5.1-18.el5
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_5.3
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-3
xulrunner-1.9.2.14-4.el5_6

-- 
  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"