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I had sent my reply to centos-devel, but as there is discussion here - here it is ... Lance ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:47:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Lance Davis <lance at uklinux.net> Reply-To: centos-devel at caosity.org To: John Newbigin <jn at it.swin.edu.au> Cc: centos-devel at caosity.org Subject: [CentOS-devel] Re: [Centos] Issues/thoughts re

Thanks to all who have tested - CentOS 3.1 has now been released. .... The release includes all security updates for rhel released by 18th March. For now further security announcements will be posted to both the centos at caosity.org and centos-devel at caosity.org mailing lists. .... CentOS-3 also now includes the rhel documentation, both on the cds (cd3 /docs) and also on the mirrors in

There is a new updated kernel for centos 3.1 that fixes a security issue. As I have not had time to test this build I am releasing it for testing for 24 hours to pick up any problems before general release. It is available at :- http://caos2.caosity.org:/centos/3.1/updates/i386/RPMS/ The version is 2.4.21-15.0.2.el.c0 Please install and test these packages, they are as yet unsigned and not

Hey, Lance mentioned yum group install. This yum group capability makes the "server" CD's more versatile than the name implies -- you only need a broadband connection to get any kind of CentOS install you want. Start with a minimal install off the CD, and then use the yum group install to conveniently get the same install you could get off the 3 CD set (only more up to date).

mirror.caosity.org is going to become a cluster of 3 servers - using round-robin dns. all uploads need to be done in future to master.caosity.org which will be the new mirror master - the others will sync off of that one. Please make sure that all scripts etc that do uploading are changed to upload to master.caosity.org Once the rr dns records are in place you may find that you may not be

There is an update to openoffice for CentOS-3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-160.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/openoffice.org-1.1.0-15.EL.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-15.EL.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-15.EL.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/openoffice.org-1.1.0-15.EL.src.rpm These are available at

I have built a set of preview U4 beta rpms for CentOS i386 - these will become the basis of CentOS 3.4 when Rhel 3 U4 is released. I will not be pushing these out to the mirrors, but they are available at http://beta.caosity.org/centos/3.3/U4beta The beta packages are not signed. To add then to yum.conf add :- [u4beta] name=CentOS-$releasever - U4beta

cAos and CentOS administration 20 March 2005 1 Executive Summary The cAos project, and the CentOS project are being separated into two trees; Changes which facilitate DNS and mirror master administration process for easier load management are already complete. 2 Announcement In the past two years, the concept of truly community based, locally rebuildable distributions,

cAos and CentOS administration 20 March 2005 1 Executive Summary The cAos project, and the CentOS project are being separated into two trees; Changes which facilitate DNS and mirror master administration process for easier load management are already complete. 2 Announcement In the past two years, the concept of truly community based, locally rebuildable distributions,

sorry for the massive cross-post, but I wanted to make sure that I get everyone that needs to know this. Mirror.caosity.org is having problems keeping up with all of the mirrors. Rsync is a memory hog when dealing with large repositories, and mirror just can't handle it. I am migrating mirror.caosity.org to a new host which should be able to handle the load better. Also, I will be limiting

Due to a number of build problems with perl, we have issued a new set of rpms that no longer have strange provide/require items ... See https://bugzilla.caosity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519 for details. The updated rpms are :- updates/i386/RPMS/perl-5.8.0-88.4.0.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/perl-CGI-2.81-88.4.0.i386.rpm

An update has been released to centos-yumconf , the yum configuration file for centos because it was not set ot check the gpgkey on the packages ity installed. It was assumed that if there was a key then it would be checked, but that is not the case, it has to be explicitly enabled per repo. https://bugzilla.caosity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543 refers The updated file is :-

I would like to formally welcome Matthew Martz to the CentOS team, he has volunteered to take on the role of Mirror Administrator, so hopefully things will get done quicker now we have a dedicated person and I would like to express all of our thanks to Matthew for stepping in to this role. If you are interested in volunteering to help with CentOS and have skills that you think we need , take

and posts to the old mailing list address should get through to the new mailing list if this one arrives :) Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

There is an update to httpd and mod_ssl for CentOS-3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-084.html refers. Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/httpd-2.0.46-32.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.46-32.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.46-32.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/httpd-2.0.46-32.ent.centos.1.src.rpm These are available at

CentOS has been nominated for an award in the Linux User awards. Please vote for CentOS !! Voting finishes tomorrow - 13th September. Please vote at :- http://www.linuxawards.co.uk/index.php You will need to vote for all categories otherwise the vote wont count. Thanks Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

The CentOS 3.1 update2 packages have now been released. They are available on mirror.centos.org and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update just run 'yum update' Please bugzilla any problems. There was a problem with the pam build in testing not being linked against the laus library, so the released version is a .c0 so that anyone who has installed the testing version

If anyone is coming to the show I will be on the uklinux.net stand and will happily discuss/demo CentOS Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

Unless anyone shouts I intend to push all the update2/testing stuff into updates for 3.1 later on today - say about 22:00 UTC All the security related updates have already been released. I am not convinced that lack of feedback means that there are no problems, more likely it means that not many people have tested the stuff, but I have had no serious problems and cant do any more testing.

The cAos Foundation and hosted projects have been granted a booth in the Dot Org Pavilion of Linux World Expo in SF this August. If you are a developer or contributor of the project and would like to help staff the both, please send me a private email so we can coordinate. I don't have the actual numbers of Exhibitor badges that we can get yet, but I would assume it is not many. This means