tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76073666605000157462024-02-08T06:37:11.399-06:00CentOS NowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-1429170019908823122016-09-30T11:28:00.000-05:002016-10-01T07:01:08.145-05:00CentOS-7 1609 Rolling ISOs Now Live<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Rolling ISOs</span></h2>
The CentOS Linux team produces rolling CentOS-7 isos, normally on a monthly basis.<br />
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The most recently completed version of those ISOs are version <b>1609</b> (<b>16</b> is for 2016, <b>09</b> is for September).<br />
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The team usually creates all our ISO and cloud images based on all updates through the 28th of the month in question .. so <b>1609</b> would mean these ISOs will contain all updates for CentOS-7 through September 28th, 2016.<br />
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These rolling ISOs have the same installer as the most recent CentOS-7 point release (currently 7.2.1511) so that they install on the same hardware as our original ISOs, while the packages installed are the latest updates.<br />
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This means that the actual kernel that boots up on the ISO is the 7.2.1511 default kernel (kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.rpm), but that the kernel installed is the latest kernel package (kernel-3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64.rpm for the 1609 ISOs).<br />
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These normal Rolling ISOs can be downloaded from this <a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/" target="_blank"><b>LINK</b></a> and here are the sha256sums:<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1609-01.iso" target="_blank">CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1609-01.iso</a>:</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">3948f7a31a8693b2df90dc31252551dcd5aa9d13f4910ad9ce28fcddc247d84f </span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1609-01.iso" target="_blank">CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1609-01.iso</a>:</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">602383c2aa93f6d7df46bd47658dcbf9b9d567108dec56ba60ce46a2f51c6eb2 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /><b><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1609-01.iso" target="_blank">CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1609-01.iso</a>:</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">f6ee8af6814bc58e2c8424db862a443649f3a57b5f85caf63704ab52d5bbac68 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1609-01.iso" target="_blank">CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1609-01.iso</a>:</b><br />1349c70e815d46c49d6ea459de6fbc074f5131c803343db18d32987ee78fd303 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1609-01.iso" target="_blank">CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1609-01.iso</a>:</b><br />54721e5e444a3191b18b0fabe1c35e12b65f93aa31732beb7899212d19cab69b </span><br />
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You can verify the sha256sum of your downloaded ISO following these <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/sha256sum" target="_blank"><b>instructions</b></a> prior to install.<br />
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The <b>DVD</b> ISO contains everything needed to do an install, but still fits on one 4.3 GB DVD. This is the most versatile install that will fit on a single DVD and if you are new to CentOS this likely the installer you want. If you pick Minimum Install in this installer, you can do an install that is identical to Minimal ISO. You can also install many different Workstation and Server installs from this ISO, including both GNOME and KDE. <br />
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The <b>Everything</b> ISO has all packages, even those not used by the installer. You usually do not need this ISO unless you do not have access to the internet and want to install things later from this DVD and not included by the graphical installer. <b>Most users will not need this ISO</b>, it is > 7 GB but can do installs from a USB key that is big enough to hold it (currently an 8 GB key).<br />
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The <b>LiveGNOME</b> ISO is a Basic GNOME Workstation install, but there is no modification or personalization allowed during the install. It is a much easier install to do, but any extras packages must be installed from the internet later.<br />
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The <b>LiveKDE</b> ISO is Basic KDE Workstation install. It also does not allow modification or personalization until after the install has finished.<br />
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The <b>Minimal</b> ISO is a very small and quick install that boots to the command console and has network connectivity and a firewall. It is used by System Administrators for the minimal install that they can then add functionality to. You need to know what you are doing to use this ISO. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Newer Hardware Support</span></h2>
As explained above, the normal rolling ISOs boot from the Point Release installer. Sometimes there is newer hardware that might not be supported in the point release installer, but could be supported with a newer kernel. This installer is much less tested and is only recommended if you can not get one of the normal installers to work for you.<br />
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There are only 2 ISOs in this family, here are the links and sha256sums:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1609-99.iso" target="_blank"><b>CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1609-99.iso</b></a>:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">90c7148ddccbb278d45d06805dee6599ec1acc585cafd02d56c6b8e32a238fa9 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1609-99.iso" target="_blank">CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1609-99.iso</a>:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1cfbbc73cc7a0eb17d7fe2fa5b1adf07492e340540603e8e1fd28b52e95f02e3</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can verify the ISO's sha256 sum using this <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/sha256sum" target="_blank"><b>LINK</b></a>, and the descriptions above are the same for these two ISOs.</span><br />
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<pre></pre>
Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-50362223767643955282016-08-15T10:23:00.000-05:002016-08-15T10:23:17.447-05:00CentOS at cPanel 2016The CentOS team will have a booth at the <a href="http://conference16.cpanel.com/" target="_blank"><b>cPanel 2016 WEIRED Conference</b></a> in Portland, Oregon at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower on <b>October 3rd through the 5th 2016</b>.<br />
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I (Johnny Hughes) will be there to discuss all things CentOS and we may have some guests at the booth from some of our Special Interest Groups and others from the CentOS Community.<br />
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If you are planning to be at the conference, please stop by and see us.Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-3619314007881131282016-06-21T15:34:00.001-05:002016-06-21T18:25:32.684-05:00CentOS at 2016 Texas Linux FestWe will have a CentOS Booth at the <a href="http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/" target="_blank"><b>2016 Texas Linux Fest</b></a> on <b>July 8th and 9th</b> in the <b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Austin+Convention+Center/@30.2635686,-97.7396059,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x3041433e6e0a9355!8m2!3d30.2635686!4d-97.7396059" target="_blank">Austin Texas Convention Center</a></b>.<br />
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Please stop by the CentOS booth for some Swag and discussion.<br />
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We will also have several operational CentOS-7 Arm32 devices at the booth, including a <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/" target="_blank"><b>Raspberry Pi2</b></a>, <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/" target="_blank"><b>Raspberry Pi3</b></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubieboard#Cubietruck_.28Cubieboard3.29" target="_blank"><b>CubieTruck</b></a> (Cubieboard3) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubieboard#Cubietruck_Plus_.28Cubieboard5.29" target="_blank"><b>CubieTruck Plus</b></a> (Cubieboard5). These devices are showcasing our <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch" target="_blank"><b>AltArch Special Interest Group</b></a>, which produce ppc64, ppc64le, armhfp (Arm32), aarch64 Arm64), and i686 (x86 32) architectures of CentOS-7.<br />
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We also will be glad to discuss the new things happening within the project, including a number of operational Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that are producing add on software for CentOS including The Xen Hypervisor, OpenStack (via RDO), Storage (GlusterFS and Ceph), Software Collections, Cloud Images (AWS, Azure, Oracle, Vagrant Boxes, KVM), Containers (Docker and Project Atomic).<br />
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So, if you have been using CentOS for the past 12 years, all that is happening just like it always has (long lived standard Linux distro with LTS), as well as all the new hypervisor, container and cloud capabilities.Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-43241282185116354532015-05-13T05:19:00.003-05:002015-05-13T05:19:48.293-05:00Firefox 38 and TLS less than 1.2<pre wrap="">Red Hat released the source code for Firefox 38. We have (or willbe
today) releasing this for CentOS-5, CentOS-6, and CentOS-7.
It does not, by default, connect to https sites with TLS less than 1.2.
This means it will not connect to sites on CentOS-5, for example ..
there are many others.
In any event, here is a wiki article that explains potential issues and
workarounds:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/Firefox38onCentOS">http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/Firefox38onCentOS</a></pre>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-34051499671040814012014-10-29T20:03:00.000-05:002014-10-29T20:03:03.876-05:00CentOS Dojo at LISA14 in Seattle on November 10th, 2014Join us at the all day (09:00 to 17:00) CentOS Dojo on Monday, November 10th, 2014 at the LISA14 conference in <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/LISA14" target="_blank">Seattle</a>, Washington.<br />
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There will be at least three CentOS board members there (<a href="http://wiki.centos.org/JohnnyHughes" target="_blank">Johnny Hughes</a>, <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/JimPerrin" target="_blank">Jim Perrin</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/KarstenWade" target="_blank">Karsten Wade</a>).<br />
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The current topics include:<br />
<ul>
<li><strong>CI environment scaling</strong> by Dave Nalley</li>
<li><strong>DevOps Isn’t Just for WebOps: The Guerrilla’s Guide to Cultural Change </strong>by Michael Stahnke</li>
<li><strong>The EPEL Phoenix Saga </strong>by Stephen Smoogen</li>
<li><strong>Docker in the Distro</strong> by Jim Perrin</li>
<li><strong>Managing your users</strong> by Matt Simmons</li>
</ul>
Visit the <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/LISA14" target="_blank">CentOS Wiki</a> for more information. <br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-61071932055743702952014-10-28T11:27:00.002-05:002014-10-28T11:27:34.464-05:00CentOS-6.6 is ReleasedCentOS 6.6 is now released, see the <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/020709.html" target="_blank">Announcement</a>.<br />
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So, the Continuous Release RPMs where released on 21 October (7 days after RHEL 6.6) and the Full Release was done 28 October (14 days after RHEL 6.6).<br />
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Enjoy. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-33259910234437147662014-10-21T07:46:00.000-05:002014-10-21T07:46:27.289-05:00Continuous Release Repository RPMs for CentOS-6.6 ReleasedThe CentOS team has released the Continuous Release (CR) Repository RPMs for CentOS-6.6 into their 6.5/cr tree. See the <b><a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/020698.html" target="_blank">Release Announcement</a></b>.<br />
<br />
Now a little more about the release process.<br />
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<ol>
<li>Red Hat releases a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this case the version is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 (RHEL-6.6), which was <b><a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/2014-October/msg00001.html" target="_blank">released</a></b> on October 14th, 2014. With that release by Red Hat comes the source code which RHEL 6.6 is based on.</li>
<li>The CentOS team takes that released source code and starts building it for their CentOS release (in this case CentOS-6.6). This process can not start until the Source Code from Red Hat is available, which in this case was October 14th.</li>
<li>At some point, all the Source Code has been built and there are RPMs available, this is normally 1-5 days depending on how many Source RPMs there are to build and how many times the order needs to be changed to get the builds done correctly.</li>
<li>After the CentOS team thinks they have a good set of binary RPMs built, they submit them to the QA team (a team of volunteers who do QA for the releases). This QA process includes the <b><a href="http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/AutomatedTests/GettingStartedWithGitorious" target="_blank">t_functional suite</a></b> and several knowledgeable system administrators downloading and running tests on the RPMs to validate updating with them works as planned.</li>
<li>At this point there are tested RPMs ready, and the CentOS team needs to build an installer tree. This means, take the new RPMs and move them into place in the main tree, remove the older ones RPMs they are replacing, run the build installer to create an installable tree, test that installable tree. This process can take up to 7 days.</li>
<li>Once there is an installable tree, all the ISOs have to be created and tested. We have to create the ISOs, upload them to the QA process, test them for installs via ISOs (correct sizes, how to split the ISOs, what is on the Live CDs and LiveDVDs to keep them below the max size to fit on media, etc.). We then also test the installs for UEFI installs, Secure Boot installs (CentOS-7 only), coping to USB Keys and checking the installs that way, etc. This process can also take up to 7 days. </li>
</ol>
So, in the process above, we can have vetted binary RPMs ready to go as soon as 5 days after we start, but it may be 14 or more days after that before we have a complete set of ISOs to do a full release. Thus the reason for the CR Repository.<br />
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<h3>
The CR Repository</h3>
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The process of building and testing an install tree, then creating and testing several types of ISO sets from that install tree (DVD Installer, Minimum Install ISO, LiveCD, LiveDVD, etc) can take 1-2 weeks after all the RPMs are built and have gone through initial QA testing.<br />
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The purpose of the CR repository is to provide quicker
access to RPMs for an upcoming CentOS point release while further QA
testing is ongoing and the ISO installers are being built and tested.<br />
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<b><a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2014-October/thread.html" target="_blank">Updates in the CR</a></b> for CentOS-6.6<br />
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<b><a href="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR" target="_blank">More Information</a></b> about CR. <br />
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CentOS-6.6 <b><a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.6" target="_blank">Release Notes</a></b> (Still in progress until the actual CentOS-6.6 release).<br />
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Upstream RHEL-6.6 <b><a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Release_Notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release Notes</a></b> and <b><a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/index.html" target="_blank">Technical Notes</a></b>.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-35161764061445244302014-10-01T08:00:00.003-05:002014-10-01T08:00:55.801-05:00Xen4CentOS XSA-108 Security update for CentOS-6There has been a fair amount of press in the last couple of days concerning Xen update <a href="http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html" target="_blank">XSA-108</a>, and the fact that Amazon EC2 and Rackspace must reboot after this update:<br />
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<a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396240,rackspace-also-forced-to-reboot-cloud-over-xen-bug.aspx" target="_blank">Rackspace forced to reboot cloud over Xen bug</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/software-as-a-service/amazon-reboots-cloud-servers-xen-bug-blamed/d/d-id/1316093" target="_blank">Amazon Reboots Cloud Servers, Xen Bug Blamed</a><br />
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There are other stories, but those articles cover the main issue.<br />
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As KB <a href="https://twitter.com/CentOS/status/517291299264024576" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, the CentOS-6 Xen4CentOS release is also impacted by this issue and the CentOS team has released <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/020664.html" target="_blank">CESA-2014:X013</a> to deal with XSA-108. There are also 3 other Xen4CentOS updates released: <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/020661.html" target="_blank">CESA-2014:X010</a>, <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/020662.html" target="_blank">CESA-2014:X011</a>, <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/020663.html" target="_blank">CESA-2014:X012</a><br />
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If you are using Xen4CentOS on CentOS-6, please use <b>yum update </b>to get these security updates ... and like Rackspace and Amazon EC2, you need to reboot your dom0 machine after the updates are applied. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-78561328679734084702014-09-30T03:28:00.000-05:002014-09-30T03:28:33.232-05:00CentOS team at cPanel 2014The CentOS team will have a booth in the <a href="http://conference14.cpanel.net/exhibit-sponsor/" target="_blank">Exhibit Hall</a> for the <a href="http://conference14.cpanel.net/" target="_blank">2014 cPanel Conference</a> at the Westin Galleria hotel in Houston, Texas from September 30th to October 1st 2014.<br />
<br />
CentOS Board members <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/JohnnyHughes" target="_blank">Johnny Hughes</a> (that's me :D) and <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/JimPerrin" target="_blank">Jim Perrin</a> will be at the booth whenever the hall is open. <br />
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We are looking forward to lots of discussions and we will have some swag to give out (Tee Shirts .. including the new 10 Year Anniversary tee, Stickers, etc.). We will also be happy to install CentOS on your laptop (or let you do it) ... or if you have a USB key available, we will put a CentOS iso on it for you to use for install later.<br />
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If you are going to be at cPanel 2014, come on down and see us!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-40644613810250332132014-09-30T03:11:00.001-05:002014-09-30T03:11:59.947-05:00CentOS Linux 5.11 for x86_64 and i386 is releasedThe CentOS Linux 5.11 distribution for both the x86_64 and i386 architectures is now released.<br />
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If you are running any previous version of CentOS-5 Linux, then you can upgrade simply by using the command:<br />
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<b>yum update</b><br />
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ISOs are also available here:<br />
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<a href="http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/" target="_blank">http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/</a><br />
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Please see the <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020601.html" target="_blank">Release Announcement</a> and <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.11" target="_blank">Release Notes</a> for more details.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-64779728927946341562014-09-24T11:37:00.001-05:002014-09-24T11:37:46.264-05:00Critical Bash updates for CentOS-5, CentOS-6, and CentOS-7There is a critical CVE issue in all versions CentOS that has been fixed today. Please update your CentOS with this command:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
yum update</blockquote>
<br />
Information about this issue can be found here:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://red.ht/1msy8D6" target="_blank">http://red.ht/1msy8D6</a><br />
<br />
and here:<br />
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<a href="http://red.ht/1uZGljA" target="_blank">http://red.ht/1uZGljA</a><br />
<br />
The CentOS release announcements are here:<br />
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<a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020582.html" target="_blank">CentOS-5</a>, <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020585.html" target="_blank">CentOS-6</a>, <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020583.html" target="_blank">CentOS-7</a><br />
<br />
If you have any other questions about this issue, you can ask on the CentOS mailing list <a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos" target="_blank">here</a>. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-87050106973391361352014-05-07T10:27:00.000-05:002014-05-07T10:27:40.987-05:00CentOS Dojo Cincinnati, OH (4 June 2014)The CentOS team is happy to announce that we will be having a <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo" target="_blank">CentOS Dojo</a> on Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 at the University of Cincinnati's Dyer Hall (<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204027710215300932006.0004c0c73f1f8468a1d43&msa=0&iwloc=0004c0c742b5f0c325e9e&dg=feature" target="_blank">Map</a> | <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centos-dojo-cincinnati-oh-4-june-2014-university-of-cincinnati-tickets-11484677981" target="_blank">Register</a> | <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Cincinnati2014" target="_blank">Info</a>)<br />
<br />
CentOS Dojos are a one day event that bring together people from the
CentOS communities to talk about systems administration, best practises,
and emerging technologies. The emphasis is to find local speakers and
tutors to come together and talk about things that they care about most,
and to share stories from their experiences working with CentOS in
various scenarios. <br />
<br />
Both <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/JimPerrin" target="_blank">Jim Perrin</a> and <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/JohnnyHughes" target="_blank">I</a> will be there representing the CentOS Board, and there will be several great speakers (details still being worked out on the exact speaker list).<br />
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If you are in the Cincinnati area and use CentOS, please register and come to the event.<br />
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See you there !Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-52833566360677186472014-05-01T14:57:00.000-05:002014-05-01T15:01:16.346-05:00OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014I will be representing the CentOS Project at <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/" target="_blank">OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014</a> on May 12th to 16th, 2014.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.centos.org/" target="_blank">CentOS Linux</a> distribution and RPMs produced by <a href="http://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page" target="_blank">RDO</a> are one of the major ways that OpenStack is now being deployed worldwide (CentOS was the 2nd most deployed Operating System in the latest <a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/11/openstack-user-survey-october-2013/" target="_blank">OpenStack User Survey</a>).<br />
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If you are using, or plan to use, RDO on CentOS (or OpenStack Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux) then there are several Red Hat tracks available at the summit that would be very informative.</div>
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I am also pretty excited about the <a href="http://ceph.com/community/red-hat-to-acquire-inktank/" target="_blank">Red Hat acquisition of Inktank</a> and I would expect to see some noise about that at the summit as well. Ceph and GlusterFS make up the current members of our <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Proposal" target="_blank">CentOS Storage SIG</a> and I look forward to working with both groups in the future. </div>
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I expect that I will be in the Expo Hall from Monday through Wednesday and I will be somewhere at the Summit on Thursday and Friday as well, so if you see an <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hKzugMt4qK4/Uwu2eeEKbXI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/tz3sUYdOco0/w336-h252-p-no/20140222_144120.jpg" target="_blank">old dude in a CentOS polo</a>, it's likely me.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-11669086894258740912014-04-30T04:57:00.000-05:002014-04-30T04:57:13.790-05:00CentOS Dojo, São Paulo, Brazil: 5 May 2014The CentOS Project will be having a Dojo in São Paulo, Brazil on Monday, May 5th, 2014 at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima <span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span>3900 - Cj 81 <span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span>Itaim Bibi <span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span>Sao Paul (<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/A3Smu" target="_blank">map</a>, <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centos-dojo-at-sao-paulo-2014-tickets-11210971317" target="_blank">register</a>, <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/SaoPaulo2014" target="_blank">info</a>). <br />
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CentOS Dojos are one day events, organized around the world, that bring together
people from the CentOS Communities to talk about systems administration,
best practices in Linux-centric activities and emerging technologies of
note. The emphasis is to find local speakers to come together and talk
about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their
experiences working with CentOS in various scenarios. <br />
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This event is sponsored By <a href="http://www.redhat.com/" target="_blank">Red Hat</a> and happens two days before <a href="http://softwarelivre.org/fisl15" target="_blank">FISL 15</a> in Porto Alegre, Brazil.<br />
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The CentOS team will also be at FISL 15 and these are our first ever events in South America, so we are pretty excited.<br />
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If you are near São Paulo or Porto Alegre at the beginning of May, please stop by and visit the team.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-18326420617170885032014-03-13T09:33:00.001-05:002014-03-13T09:34:30.187-05:00CentOS Events in the Next Few WeeksCentOS has 3 events happening in the next month or so. Please come out and join us at as many of them as you can.<br />
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CentOS Dojo in <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/SantaClara2014" target="_blank">Santa Clara, California</a> on 31 March 2014.<br />
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CentOS Dojo in <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Denver2014" target="_blank">Denver, Colorado</a> on 10 April 2014.<br />
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The CentOS Project at the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/summit/" target="_blank">Red Hat Summit</a> in San Francisco, CA on 14-17 April 2014.<br />
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We will have CentOS board members at each of these events. If you want to find out what is happening the the CentOS world then these are the places to be :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-45985518391191300622014-03-13T09:03:00.001-05:002014-03-14T11:36:21.989-05:00Createrepo and Parallel Delta RPMs on CentOS-6Anyone who is using Delta RPMs (AKA - the yum-presto plugin) on CentOS-6 or Fedora knows how much of a PITA it is to generate the drpms. It takes forever to generate.<br />
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Ian Mcleod has posted some new functionality on the <a href="http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2014-February/010580.html" target="_blank">Yum Developers</a> mailing list that addresses this issue.<br />
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Here is the <a href="https://github.com/imcleod/createrepo/tree/feature/parallel_deltas_full" target="_blank">git repo</a> that contains the new code.<br />
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I have created an RPM and SRPM for EL6 that use the tarball from the git repo and add the following functionality:<br />
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--delta-workers - The number of worker processes to use for delta<br />
related tasks</blockquote>
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--max-concurrent-delta-rpm-size - The maximum total size of uncompressed<br />
rpm payloads that are actively being processed by makedeltarpm at any<br />
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You can get copies of the RPMS from my <a href="http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/createrepo_delta/" target="_blank">people.centos.org</a> location for testing. </div>
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The only things that I found with the rpm is:</div>
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3. As discussed in the Yum Developers thread above, you want to make sure to assign a value to --max-concurrent-delta-rpm-size . The number to assign is bytes ... so 16GB (if you have a 64GB ram machine, and the recommended amount is about 25%) then it would be 16 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 17179869184 (as an example). That machine also has 24 CPU cores ... so I used 24 for --workers and --delta-workers.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619049560290287021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-58320399700160333162014-02-13T15:01:00.002-06:002014-02-13T15:42:34.006-06:00CentOS at Scale 12xSeveral members of the CentOS team will be at Scale 12x <a href="http://bit.ly/1hEH6t5">(http://bit.ly/1hEH6t5</a>) in Los Angeles, California on February 21st to 23nd, 2014.<br />
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CentOS will be part of the "Infrastructure.Next at Scale" event ( <a href="http://bit.ly/1irKWUm">http://bit.ly/1irKWUm</a> ) event that happens on Friday (21st), and we will have the following talk there:<br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/1g2voUB">http://bit.ly/1g2voUB</a><br />
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We will be at the Red Hat Community booth/table on both Saturday and Sunday (22nd and 23rd) with free swag (teeshirts, stickers, etc).<br />
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We will have a Birds of a Feather session, details of which will be provided at the table/booth when finalized.<br />
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Finally, we will also have a talk titled "CentOS Project Q&A Forum" (<a href="http://bit.ly/1bQ5rVS">http://bit.ly/1bQ5rVS</a>) on Sunday (23rd).<br />
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If you are in the Los Angeles area, please stop by and see us at Scale 12x !!!Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-82865502040408205112014-02-08T07:46:00.000-06:002014-02-08T07:46:01.887-06:00Kernel-ml, NVIDIA Drivers, and the 3.13.x kernel<a href="http://elrepo.org/tiki/" target="_blank">ELRepo</a> has a <a href="http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml" target="_blank">Main Line kernel</a> section to allow using the latest kernel with CentOS-6. I use this kernel on my laptops and workstations as it usually means better hardware detection and battery life, etc.<div>
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If you have the need to use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers with this kernel, as I do on one of my laptops, then you would need to install the latest NVIDIA drivers for each kernel. No one (that I know of at least) maintains an RPM based module for the kernel-ml series, so <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us" target="_blank">downloading</a> the latest version of the drivers from NVIDIA's site is how I handle this situation.</div>
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Sometimes with a new kernel tree is begun, in this case the 3.13.x kernel tree, the NVIDIA drivers as posted with not work. This is the current situation with the 3.13.2 kernel (as installed via ELRepo on CentOS 6.5 ) when using the latest NVIDIA drivers (currently version 338.31).</div>
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On the web, I found a good <a href="http://blog.langfinger.org/?p=314" target="_blank">blog</a> entry on how to generally fix the issue, so I thought I would go over how to make it work on CentOS-6.</div>
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<li>Enable the ELRepo repository (if required) using their instructions <a href="http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us" target="_blank">Download</a> the latest NVIDIA Drivers from the NVIDIA site.</li>
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patch -p1 < 02_nvidia_3.13.patch</blockquote>
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Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-20313103962309211862012-07-09T18:17:00.001-05:002012-07-10T06:14:37.483-05:00CentOS-6.3 Release<b>July 9th, 2012</b> - Today the CentOS Project has <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-July/018706.html" target="_blank">released</a> CentOS-6.3. This release came 18 days after the upstream release of EL 6.3. The major issues that we had with getting this release out were getting the i386 distribution to boot properly and adjusting the content of DVD-1 and DVD-2 of each architecture to allow for the most common install groups to come from DVD1 and not require DVD2.<br />
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Some of the major changes for this release include a move from OpenOffice 3.2.1 to <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank">LibreOffice</a> 3.4.5 and the addition of Virtual to Virtual and Physical to Virtual (<a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com/tag/virt-v2v/" target="_blank">virt-v2v and virt-p2v</a>) server migration tools to KVM Virtual Machines. Please see the CentOS-6.3 <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.3" target="_blank">release notes</a> for more information on these and other features. The Open H Website has a very good article on <a href="http://h-online.com/-1623186" target="_blank">what's new in EL6</a>.<br />
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We were pretty much ready to release the distribution by Friday, July 6th, but we had to then copy our trees to the several dozen internal mirror servers in the CentOS Project's infrastructure and then open those mirrors up to the more than 500 <a href="http://mirror-status.centos.org/" target="_blank">external mirrors</a> that serve CentOS in more than 75 countries world wide. While the CentOS Project is doing a point release, you can see what is happen by visiting our <a href="http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/" target="_blank">QA Development website</a> and looking at the blog entries on the dashboard,<br />
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We hope you enjoy CentOS-6.3 !Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-73175868244903043962012-06-07T05:23:00.000-05:002012-06-07T05:27:49.107-05:00CentOS Project Release TimesOne of the issues we have had in the CentOS Project is that at point release time, we were lagging behind a bit on getting the releases out. Recently, the CentOS Project has addressed this issue in 3 major ways:<br />
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1. We created the <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR" target="_blank">CR repository</a> where we can, if there are delays, push out multiple updates that work together while we take a care of problems with packages that don't build, if we have issues getting the ISOs to properly build, etc. during the point release process. This gives us an avenue to release pieces of the point release without having to release the whole thing. We have actually not had to use the CR repository on the last 2 release cycles (CentOS-5.8 and CentOS-6.2) as we got each of them out within 10 days... however, this is an option that we have if we need to get out pieces of the release (like critical updates) if there is any kind of delay in the main process.<br />
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2. We now have corporate sponsors who sponsor 2 CentOS Developers to work on the CentOS Project full time. That means that we now have 80 paid hours per week of CentOS Project time where we get do nothing but CentOS Project related work. The sponsors do not ask for anything in return, just faster CentOS updates by the current CentOS developers who get to make the CentOS Project their daily work priority. This should be huge in preventing future delays.<br />
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3. We have given better tools to the CentOS QA team. They now see the packages that we are building in the QA IRC channel, the status of the builds on the QA mailing list and we have a scratch build area setup where they can do test builds to help us develop patches for issues, etc. We have also been using <a href="https://trello.com/" target="_blank">trello</a> for collaboration during point release time to get updates out faster.<br />
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The end result of all of these efforts have shown that we can get packages out in a timely manner. Since January 2012, there have been no updates (outside of point releases) that have taken more than 3 days to push. In fact, only one package during the entire time has taken more than one day to get released. As I mentioned before, the last two point releases were also completed very quickly. Here is some press on that:<br />
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<a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/CentOS-and-Oracle-release-RHEL-5-8-clones-1466138.html" target="_blank">5.8 Release</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Version-6-2-of-Oracle-Linux-and-CentOS-arriving-Update-1398105.html" target="_blank">6.2 Release</a><br />
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The bottom line is that the CentOS Project has expended great effort to ensure that point releases of current products will be released in a timely fashion. With the changes we have put in place and with the ability to do CentOS as our main daily work focus the future looks quite good for timely CentOS updates.Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-1752542530802752312012-01-30T08:15:00.001-06:002012-07-10T06:09:55.961-05:00DRBD 8.3.12 for CentOS-5 in testingThe <a href="http://elrepo.org/" target="_blank">ELRepo Project</a> has DRBD packages for CentOS-5 and CentOS-6, named drbd83-utils or drbd84-utils. The CentOS Project does not want to maintain extra packages that exist in other places unless we need to change them ... so we are not going to create DRBD packages for CentOS-6.<br />
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Since CentOS-4 is being EOL'ed in less than a month, we are also not going to publish updates for the DRBD in CentOS-4.<br />
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This leaves the DRBD for CentOS-5 that are part of CentOS Extras. Since these have been released for CentOS-5, we will continue to maintain the DRBD version 8.3.x tree (drbd83) in CentOS Extras.<br />
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A new version of DRBD 8.3 (drbd83-8.3.12) has been released to the testing repository for CentOS-5. You can see the details here:<br />
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<a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-January/122793.html" target="_blank">DRBD 8.3.12 for CentOS-5</a><br />
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If you want to use DRBD 8.4.x for CentOS-5, rather than releasing it separately, the CentOS Project recommends that you use drbd84-utils from ELRepo (linked above).<br />
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For users who want to use the drbd83-8.3.12 version ... please test the version that is currently in CentOS Testing and provide feedback. With enough feedback I will move the packages from testing to CentOS Extras.<br />
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<b>NOTE</b>: These packages have now been moved to CentOS Extras and can be installed normally with yum.Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-21081147512560727092012-01-03T05:42:00.003-06:002012-01-03T06:51:14.111-06:00CentOS in 2012The first thing I want to do is congratulate <a href="http://www.karan.org/" target="_blank">Karanbir</a> and Tasha on the birth of their new baby girl Millie. She is the quite cute ... hello Millie :)<br />
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The <a href="http://www.centos.org/" target="_blank">CentOS Project</a> has spent much time and effort into getting a new <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-December/008462.html" target="_blank">build system</a> in place for CentOS 6 that can generate good and timely builds, as well as inform us of newly released upstream SRPMS and keep the <a href="http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/" target="_blank">CentOS QA</a> team informed when we build any new packages.<br />
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The release of CentOS-6.2 on 12/20/2011, in less than 2 weeks and at the same time as Oracle's OEL as noted on <a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/" target="_blank">Distrowatch</a>, is where we would like to have all our future releases be. I think that we should see the standard 2-4 week time frame for point releases and within 24 hours for updates now that we have this new build system in place.<br />
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We have also put a <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR" target="_blank">Continuous Release (CR) repository</a> in place for both CentOS 5 and CentOS 6. This repository can be installed via the simple command:<br />
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The purpose of the CR repository is to allow the CentOS Project to push some of the security updates if we are having issues with a point release build (like we did with both CentOS-6.0 and CentOS-6.1). If we are not going to meet the 2-4 week goal for our point release, we will push out the packages we have gotten to build properly while continuing to work on the problem packages. This repository is totally optional and was not needed with CentOS-6.2, but we recommend it be installed if you want to get your security updates as fast as possible.<br />
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Karanbir gets the credit for the new build system, called reimzul. It uses <a href="http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/" target="_blank">beanstalkd</a> work queues and allows adding new builders to process the work as required.<br />
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The build system has the flexibility to allow us to import SRPMS into a git repo for packages we want to change, generate a new SRPM after edits for those packages, and submit those modified SRPMS into the work queues. It also allows for the submission of non-modified SRPMS directly without the need to import them into git. It automates several things that we have done in the past by hand (automatically knowing which packages are not built by CentOS (for example the RHN packages that deal with upstream subscriptions) and automatically copies multilib 32bit packages into the 64 bit tree. The system also reliably produces the Yum-Presto DeltaRPMS and metadata for minimizing download times for updates.<br />
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We do need to announce that CentOS-4 will be reaching the End Of Life at the end of February 2012. That means that there will be no more CentOS-4 updates after March 1st, 2012. If you are still using CentOS-4, you need to upgrade to CentOS-5 or CentOS-6 or switch to Red Hat's paid Extended Update Support for EL4 to continue to get updates. Please see the <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-December/018285.html" target="_blank">CentOS-4 EOL announcement</a> for more details.<br />
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So, news on the CentOS front for 2012 is very promising and we are looking forward to great things in the new year.Johnny Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720320445778817268noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-51352948578778708362011-03-08T18:55:00.000-06:002011-03-08T19:47:31.881-06:00How the new Kernel SRPM distribution impacts CentOSThere seem to be many different articles concerning how Red Hat has chosen to distribute its Kernel Source Code (SRPM) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here are a just a few of them:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3927476/Red-Hat-Fights-Back.htm">Red Hat Fights Back</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72012.html">Why RHEL 6 Keeps Its Patches Under Its Hat</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/45586-is-red-hat-violating-the-gpl">Is Red Hat violating the GPL?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/">Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source<br /></a><br />Red Hat has also responded in a couple of places, here are a few of those:<br /><br /><a href="http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/">Commitment to Open</a><br /><a href="http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/"><br />Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches</a><br /><br />The first thing I want to make perfectly clear is that this blog post is MY OPINION and it is not an official statement of or by the CentOS Project. <br /><br />Now that we have that out of the way, the first issue I want to address is the suggestion by ITWire that Red Hat is somehow violating the GPL by distributing their source package with the patches already rolled in. They are not, most companies distribute their source packages as tarballs with all the patches already rolled in. Some companies (but not all) also provide all the Software Change Management (SCM) commits in a public place (like a SVN, GIT or CVS repository). This is not required. What is required is what Red Hat is doing, providing the source code to their customers.<br /><br />The other thing the ITWire article does is that they have a link to a Red Hat "<a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/help/terms_conditions.html">Terms of Service</a>" for their websites and portals along with the claim that the this is a restriction on the Red Hat customers ability to distribute software. The only problem is, the link ITWire pointed to says that software is controlled by a different agreement altogether. The above link is for <strong>Use of Content</strong>, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux software is actually governed by the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_rha_eula.html">EULA link</a> here. If you look at that EULA, you can distribute the software per the license of each package as long as you meet the trademark and logo requirements. Nothing new to see here, software distributing same as before, no GPL violations, no problems.<br /><br />The other question that people seem to have is will the new method of the kernel delivery somehow impact CentOS and its ability to get the releases out. It should have no impact on the main CentOS distribution at all. We have built the EL6 kernels for testing and there is no impact. Where there will be a slight impact is the CentOS Plus kernel (which is something CentOS provides as added functionality). The CentOS plus kernel sometimes adds patches to fix problems that are delayed in upstream engineering or things they choose not to fix in architectures that they do not support. These kind of changes will be harder to make because some of these patches normally need to be done in a specific order to get them to apply in the most efficient manner. Or we might want to back out a specific patch and replace it with a different one. These kind of things will now be much harder. Instead of backing out the patch, we will need to modify the patch to fit OVER the already rolled in source code from Red Hat. It will take longer, or we may not even offer this service for CentOS-6.<br /><br />I certainly understand why Red Hat is taking the action they are taking, it is fully GPL compatible, and it should have minimal impact on the main CentOS distribution. The CentOS Project wants (and needs) Red Hat to continue to be the premiere paid Enterprise Linux distribution for the United States and the rest of the world. I personally would rather Red Hat did not deliver their kernel this way, but it does not seem to be a major issue to me. Which is why it seemed to take 4 months before many people even noticed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-65333924890085484552009-10-02T07:20:00.000-05:002009-10-05T04:35:39.342-05:00CPanel Conference 09<a href="http://www.cpanel.net/conference/09/index.html"><img src="http://www.cpanel.net/images/conference/conferenceCTA.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Looks like I might be able to work out all the last minute details and make it to the <a href="http://www.cpanel.net/conference/09/index.html">CPanel Conference 09</a> in Houston, Texas next week (5th, 6th and 7th of October, 2009).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.karan.org/">Karanbir</a> and his wife are flying over from London to make the event. We are also possibly going to have some kind of CentOS social event or meeting on the October 8th, so if you are in Houston and might like to do something like that then contact me or Karanbir on IRC (freenode, #centos-social) or e-mail.<br /><br />I am really looking forward to seeing Karanbir in person for the first time and meeting his wife. I am also looking forward to meeting Garry Dale, who is helping at the event and pretty much put most of this together.<br /><br />Heck, I might even get a haircut and trim up the beard for this :DUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607366660500015746.post-21871740526467071422009-09-02T07:56:00.000-05:002009-10-05T04:33:39.239-05:00i586 installs for CentOS 4.8The CentOS 4.8 i386 install media has an option for the older i586 processors, as well as the normal i686 installer. The only problem is that the i586 kernels are broken on the released install media for CentOS 4.8.<br /><br />If you need i586 install media, you can download them <a href="http://i586.centos.org/centos/4/isos/i386/">from here</a>.<br /><br />Since the upstream product on which CentOS is based does not support i586, we decided to fix the issues and release an i586 installer separately so as not to impact the already released products. One of the main reasons we do not want to change the OS directory to be different than the released ISOs is that we know some people use <a href="http://atterer.net/jigdo/">jigdo</a> (and probably other things) to create installable media from the mirror trees instead of downloading both the trees and the DVD, etc.<br /><br />Because of the need to keep the OS directory for 4.8 the same as the original install media, if you want to use the new i586 media to do a network install, you will need to create your own tree and publish it (you can mount and publish the i586 install DVD for this), or you can install from:<br /><a href="http://i586.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/"><br />http://i586.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6