Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-19 Thread Warren Young
On 12/17/2013 18:57, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
 Yes, there are many missing -devel packages.  It's possible that they
 didn't fit on the media though,

I've run into two of these myself: libedit and libgd.  Both of these are 
living, useful libraries, without direct replacements.[*]

Clearly there are RPMs shipped in the distro that require these 
libraries.  I guess Red Hat are saying that they don't intend that you 
develop your *own* software against these libraries.



[*] (libedit is API-compatible with readline, but most apps that use it 
do so in order to avoid the GPL.  There are many alternatives to GD, but 
none are API-compatible.)
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-19 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Warren Young wrote:

 On 12/17/2013 18:57, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
 Yes, there are many missing -devel packages.  It's possible that they
 didn't fit on the media though,

Look at

lftp ftp.redhat.com:/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages ls libedit* 
libedit-3.0-10.20121213cvs.el7.i686.rpm
libedit-3.0-10.20121213cvs.el7.x86_64.rpm 
libedit-devel-3.0-10.20121213cvs.el7.i686.rpm
libedit-devel-3.0-10.20121213cvs.el7.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -qlp libedit-3.0-10.20121213cvs.el7.x86_64.rpm
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0.0.42
/usr/share/doc/libedit-3.0
/usr/share/doc/libedit-3.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libedit-3.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit-3.0/THANKS

-Connie Sieh

 I've run into two of these myself: libedit and libgd.  Both of these are
 living, useful libraries, without direct replacements.[*]

 Clearly there are RPMs shipped in the distro that require these
 libraries.  I guess Red Hat are saying that they don't intend that you
 develop your *own* software against these libraries.



 [*] (libedit is API-compatible with readline, but most apps that use it
 do so in order to avoid the GPL.  There are many alternatives to GD, but
 none are API-compatible.)
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-19 Thread Warren Young
On 12/19/2013 12:16, Connie Sieh wrote:
 Look at

 lftp ftp.redhat.com:/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages ls libedit*

Thanks for the tip.  The VM I'm testing RHEL 7 beta on isn't 
network-connected, so I guess I'm just going to have to mirror that 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/16/2013 01:27 PM, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
 I meant the actual implementation, I knew it would be GNOME Classic.  This
 beta release is awful.  I lost count of how many devel packages were
 missing now, I think I had to rebuild over 20 of their source rpms to get
 them while I was toying with Cairo Dock.  Not to mention that desktop, 4
 ways to close an app - that's awesome! (not)

Just to quantify this : you assert that there are srpm build output that
is otherwise not released in this beta from red hat ?

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/15/2013 10:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpn.cnrs.fr wrote:
 so stay on RHEL6/CentOS6 until this old hardware dies
 where is the problem?
 Google Chrome, etc.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates

 *who* is forcing you to RHEL7?
 Nobody wants old desktop apps.

 In this case, use Fedora. Since the release of windows 8 and 2012 (and
 even before) and UEFI, all new hardware are 64 bit capable, and even ARM
 will release a 64 bit version. Remember that in RHEL, 'E' is for
 Enterprise (and in CentOS, 'ent' means the same). That is, stability and
 maintennace on the long term are more important than recent desktop apps.
 In the environments where LTSP is used (schools, etc.) there would
 typically be a reasonably current server where you want stability and
 low maintenance and it PXE-boots  the clients (thus no
 maintenance...).  There is also typically not a systems expert on site
 since one of the reasons to use it in education is to keep costs down.
 Keeping Fedora running would be i nightmare.  Ubuntu might be
 tolerable, though.  Or perhaps it can be altered to boot a different
 system on the clients like DRBL.

Well, then convince Red Hat to build it :D

IF (and only if) it works to build i686, we (CentOS) might try to do
it.  However, it will not initially be a priority.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-17 Thread Andrew Wyatt
Yes, there are many missing -devel packages.  It's possible that they
didn't fit on the media though, I haven't connected the system to RedHat's
repositories.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote:

 On 12/16/2013 01:27 PM, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
  I meant the actual implementation, I knew it would be GNOME Classic.
  This
  beta release is awful.  I lost count of how many devel packages were
  missing now, I think I had to rebuild over 20 of their source rpms to get
  them while I was toying with Cairo Dock.  Not to mention that desktop, 4
  ways to close an app - that's awesome! (not)

 Just to quantify this : you assert that there are srpm build output that
 is otherwise not released in this beta from red hat ?

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 07:57:01PM -0600, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
 Yes, there are many missing -devel packages.  It's possible that they
 didn't fit on the media though, I haven't connected the system to RedHat's
 repositories.

You can just run yum update (though I think you have to manually change the
enable line in the rh-beta.repo.  You don't have to register in order to
download from RH's repos.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/15/2013 10:23 PM, Keith Keller wrote:

 CentOS *IS* RHEL rebuilt without branding and offered without support 
 contracts.  So saying the needs of the user differ is specious.
 
 I disagree.  The people RH may be targetting for purchasing RHEL7 may
 very well be different from the people hoping to use CentOS 7.  If not
 enough paying RHEL customers complain about this issue, they're not
 likely to change their policy; upset CentOS users probably won't bother
 upstream enough.

therefore, if enough people sign up to help and do the work, we can make
the resources available within the project to facilitate this. the
people doing the work in centos for the distro base do not have the
bandwidth to add this additional task - so its going to need people to
stay up and offer to do the work. I'm happy and very willing to help
bootstrap the process.

Also worth keeping in mind is that this would be a 'derevative' of the
core CentOS Linux and it wont just be CentOS Linux 7/i686. That gives us
a few easy wins : we dont need to port the entire package set, and we
can selectively make changes to things like the installer ( to work
around the xfs issue, however looking at the code briefly, we dont /
wont have the xfs issue anyway, the installer is smart enough to work
around on i686 ).

There would also be implications on how we do the release work, but the
main issue at hand, that needs to be solved before we even consider this
as a group : who's stepping up to do the work involved. Off the top of
my head, this is going to need a team of 5 to 8 people doing stuff 'in
odd hours' or a couple of people working on this as their primary focus.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-16 Thread Andrew Wyatt
I meant the actual implementation, I knew it would be GNOME Classic.  This
beta release is awful.  I lost count of how many devel packages were
missing now, I think I had to rebuild over 20 of their source rpms to get
them while I was toying with Cairo Dock.  Not to mention that desktop, 4
ways to close an app - that's awesome! (not)

Meh, this really should be labeled an alpha it has so many problems but I
guess it's easy enough to bootstrap their sources to spit out all of the
missing dependencies.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpn.cnrs.fr wrote:

 Le 11/12/2013 18:26, Andrew Wyatt a écrit :
  Thanks for this, looking forward to kicking the tires to see what they
 did
  with GNOME 3.

  From the release notes :
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta features the next major version of
 the GNOME Desktop, GNOME 3. The user experience of GNOME 3 is largely
 defined by GNOME Shell, which replaces the GNOME 2 desktop shell. Apart
 from window management, GNOME Shell provides the top bar on the screen,
 which hosts the 'system status' area in the top right, a clock, and a
 hot corner that switches to |Activities Overview|, which provides easy
 access to applications and windows.

 The default GNOME Shell interface in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta
 is GNOME Classic which features a window list at the bottom of the
 screen and traditional *Applications* and *Places* menus.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Alain Péan
Le 15/12/2013 05:55, Les Mikesell a écrit :
 On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:

 so stay on RHEL6/CentOS6 until this old hardware dies
 where is the problem?
 Google Chrome, etc.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates

 *who* is forcing you to RHEL7?
 Nobody wants old desktop apps.


In this case, use Fedora. Since the release of windows 8 and 2012 (and 
even before) and UEFI, all new hardware are 64 bit capable, and even ARM 
will release a 64 bit version. Remember that in RHEL, 'E' is for 
Enterprise (and in CentOS, 'ent' means the same). That is, stability and 
maintennace on the long term are more important than recent desktop apps.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/14/2013 8:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Nobody wants old desktop apps.

new apps tend to have heavier memory and performance requirements.

we don't run 16 bit stuff anymore either, and 16 bit computers, like 
intel 286, are LONG obsolete, outside of the low end embedded market.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Peter
On 12/15/2013 09:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 12/14/2013 8:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Nobody wants old desktop apps.
 
 new apps tend to have heavier memory and performance requirements.
 
 we don't run 16 bit stuff anymore either, and 16 bit computers, like 
 intel 286, are LONG obsolete, outside of the low end embedded market.

That's a bit different, Linux never had 16 bit support, but is still
perfectly usable on a 32 bit arch.  I understand RedHat dropping 32 bit
support for this release, the needs of RedHat customers are different to
those of CentOS users, when you fork out a few grand for a server
license it's not such a big deal to get a new server to go with it.

That said, it may not be very difficult to build the sources for i386,
and I personally don't see any reason why CentOS can't or shouldn't.
The 32 bit arch will be in a separate repo to the 64 bit, so won't
interfere with upstream compatibility, and CentOS likely already has the
infra in place to do a 32 bit build from prior versions.  Since Fedora
still fully supports 32 bit, right up to rawhide it's reasonable to
assume that the RedHat sources should build to 32 bit without too much fuss.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread LEVU BIS
How much GB RAM RHEL 7 64bit support ?

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 From: pe...@pajamian.dhs.org
 To: centos@centos.org
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public
 
 On 12/15/2013 09:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
  On 12/14/2013 8:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
  Nobody wants old desktop apps.
  
  new apps tend to have heavier memory and performance requirements.
  
  we don't run 16 bit stuff anymore either, and 16 bit computers, like 
  intel 286, are LONG obsolete, outside of the low end embedded market.
 
 That's a bit different, Linux never had 16 bit support, but is still
 perfectly usable on a 32 bit arch.  I understand RedHat dropping 32 bit
 support for this release, the needs of RedHat customers are different to
 those of CentOS users, when you fork out a few grand for a server
 license it's not such a big deal to get a new server to go with it.
 
 That said, it may not be very difficult to build the sources for i386,
 and I personally don't see any reason why CentOS can't or shouldn't.
 The 32 bit arch will be in a separate repo to the 64 bit, so won't
 interfere with upstream compatibility, and CentOS likely already has the
 infra in place to do a 32 bit build from prior versions.  Since Fedora
 still fully supports 32 bit, right up to rawhide it's reasonable to
 assume that the RedHat sources should build to 32 bit without too much fuss.
 
 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Alain Péan
Le 15/12/2013 10:23, LEVU BIS a écrit :
 How much GB RAM RHEL 7 64bit support ?

 From release notes, for x86_64,
'3 TB supported/64 TB'

That's the same as for RHEL 6.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpn.cnrs.fr wrote:

 so stay on RHEL6/CentOS6 until this old hardware dies
 where is the problem?
 Google Chrome, etc.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates

 *who* is forcing you to RHEL7?
 Nobody wants old desktop apps.


 In this case, use Fedora. Since the release of windows 8 and 2012 (and
 even before) and UEFI, all new hardware are 64 bit capable, and even ARM
 will release a 64 bit version. Remember that in RHEL, 'E' is for
 Enterprise (and in CentOS, 'ent' means the same). That is, stability and
 maintennace on the long term are more important than recent desktop apps.

In the environments where LTSP is used (schools, etc.) there would
typically be a reasonably current server where you want stability and
low maintenance and it PXE-boots  the clients (thus no
maintenance...).  There is also typically not a systems expert on site
since one of the reasons to use it in education is to keep costs down.
Keeping Fedora running would be i nightmare.  Ubuntu might be
tolerable, though.  Or perhaps it can be altered to boot a different
system on the clients like DRBL.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/15/2013 1:21 AM, Peter wrote:
 the needs of RedHat customers are different to
 those of CentOS users

CentOS *IS* RHEL rebuilt without branding and offered without support 
contracts.  So saying the needs of the user differ is specious.




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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
 On 12/15/2013 1:21 AM, Peter wrote:
 the needs of RedHat customers are different to
 those of CentOS users

 CentOS *IS* RHEL rebuilt without branding and offered without support
 contracts.  So saying the needs of the user differ is specious.


It does make sense in the context of being able to build a 32-bit
version from RHEL sources, though.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/15/2013 10:27 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 It does make sense in the context of being able to build a 32-bit
 version from RHEL sources, though.

which is completely untested

anyways, doesn't EL7 use XFS now by default?  XFS is completely 
UNsupported with a 32bit kernel as the stack is too small.







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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:35:31AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 
 anyways, doesn't EL7 use XFS now by default?  XFS is completely 
 UNsupported with a 32bit kernel as the stack is too small.

ext2/3/4 are all still available which are perfectly content with i686/32bit.




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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:35:31AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 12/15/2013 10:27 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
  It does make sense in the context of being able to build a 32-bit
  version from RHEL sources, though.
 
 which is completely untested
 
 anyways, doesn't EL7 use XFS now by default?  XFS is completely 
 UNsupported with a 32bit kernel as the stack is too small.

To answer just part of the question, yes, it's using XFS by default.  If
you choose standard partition during installation and make no other
changes, you will have an XFS partition.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/15/2013 11:42 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 To answer just part of the question, yes, it's using XFS by default.  If
 you choose standard partition during installation and make no other
 changes, you will have an XFS partition.

so a custom 32 bit build, the installer probably should be modified to 
use EXT3 or 4 instead (in 32bits I'd be inclined to stick with 3), 
requiring yet more testing and debugging.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:59:36AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 
 so a custom 32 bit build, the installer probably should be modified to 
 use EXT3 or 4 instead (in 32bits I'd be inclined to stick with 3), 
 requiring yet more testing and debugging.

Which should be a trivial QA test.

Why the reservations with ext4 on a 32bit platform?






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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/15/2013 12:11 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
 Why the reservations with ext4 on a 32bit platform?

limited memory space.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-12-15, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
 On 12/15/2013 1:21 AM, Peter wrote:
 the needs of RedHat customers are different to
 those of CentOS users

 CentOS *IS* RHEL rebuilt without branding and offered without support 
 contracts.  So saying the needs of the user differ is specious.

I disagree.  The people RH may be targetting for purchasing RHEL7 may
very well be different from the people hoping to use CentOS 7.  If not
enough paying RHEL customers complain about this issue, they're not
likely to change their policy; upset CentOS users probably won't bother
upstream enough.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com wrote:

 In a way it's a shame...
 At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in
 data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.

This will probably be painful for people using LTSP to boot older thin
clients even if they have a hefty server.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:


 Am 14.12.2013 23:30, schrieb Les Mikesell:
 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com wrote:

 In a way it's a shame...
 At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in
 data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.

 This will probably be painful for people using LTSP to boot older thin
 clients even if they have a hefty server

 how should it be painful for anybody?

 * physical machine: use RHEL5/6, it is still supported
 * server: user virtualization for a RHEL5/6 guest

LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) isn't virtualization, it is
network booting an assortment of desktops that can act as thin clients
to your hefty server or run local apps over an NFS mount from the
server.While there are ways to boot a different kernel on the
clients, LTSP wants to boot the same one the server uses.And it is
used in classrooms, etc.

 in 2013/2014 there is no valid need for support 32bit
 on a recent operating system while mosts users kicked
 this legacy hardware 5-6 years ago for many reasons

Sure if you buy a new server today you'd get 64 bit.  But seriously,
how many things do you do on you desktop that you couldn't do back
when everything was 32 bit?   And what can't you do with a 32bit X
session running remote apps from a 64-bit server?   So there is no
reason to replace those boxes and either lagging behind in software or
switching to a more accommodating Linux distribution will be painful.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:


 so stay on RHEL6/CentOS6 until this old hardware dies
 where is the problem?

Google Chrome, etc.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates

 *who* is forcing you to RHEL7?

Nobody wants old desktop apps.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-13 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 13.12.2013 um 01:10 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster 
 leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:
 
 
 In a way it's a shame...
 At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in
 data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.
 
 And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period
 of time as well.
 
 It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/
 Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc.
 
 http://www.openwall.com/Owl/
 
 
 Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll be
 you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)
 
 any suggestions?
 
 
 I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the
 64-bit CPUs you want.  But no ... once you get through the models that have
 AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have
 Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable.
 And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from
 a distributor/reseller).
 
 You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power
 consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom systems).



i got a response from Pcengines: The new boards are still in the beta phase, 
production in february.

It looks promising especially the roadmap  http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm :-)


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-13 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:

 Am 13.12.2013 um 01:10 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com:
  On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster 
 leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:
 
  Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll
 be
  you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)
 
  any suggestions?
 
 
  I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the
  64-bit CPUs you want.  But no ... once you get through the models that
 have
  AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have
  Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable.
  And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from
  a distributor/reseller).
 
  You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power
  consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom
 systems).



 i got a response from Pcengines: The new boards are still in the beta
 phase, production in february.

 It looks promising especially the roadmap  http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm:-)


Sweet!
That hardware is a big improvement over the current ALIX series with Geode
LX800s.
Gotta wonder where they come in on the pricing scale?  Time will tell. ;-)

Thanks for sharing.

*If you purchase one I'd appreciate a review. :-)*

And to think I've been eyeing up the Ubiquiti Edge Routers [0] (but they're
$99 USD as opposed to nearly $200 USD or more for whatever the new APU
series will be).  But the ERs are MIPS-64, etc so I'd run the EdgeOS or
_maybe_ Debian (or anything else that supports that arch -- I've not done
much research as I prefer x86/amd64).

[0] http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#edge-router-lite




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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-13 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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On 12/12/2013 03:26 PM, Peter wrote:
 On 12/13/2013 08:20 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 01:49 PM, Peter wrote:
 On 12/13/2013 02:45 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
 
 What SELInux issue did you have?  What policy did you need to add?
 
 Unfortunately I've misplaced the audit logs and report of the problem,
 but this is the policy I had to add:
 
 module mypol 1.0;
 
 require { type unconfined_t; type sshd_net_t; type kernel_t; class
 process { dyntransition transition sigchld }; }
 
 #= kernel_t == allow kernel_t 
 sshd_net_t:process dyntransition; allow kernel_t unconfined_t:process {
 dyntransition transition };
 
 #= sshd_net_t == allow sshd_net_t 
 kernel_t:process sigchld;
 
 
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 I actually do not think you need these, these were all caused by the
 originally mislabeled system.  If you remove your custom policy, I bet it
 will work fine.
 
 That makes sense.  I will try removing them and see how it goes (any 
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semodule -r POLICYNAME.

For example if you installed mypol.pp

You would probably remove

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/12/2013 03:32 PM, Warren Young wrote:
 On 12/11/2013 08:56, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 
 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match
 the release upsteam
 
 In the aftermath of the CentOS 6.0 trauma, I recall there being 
 speculation that building the next major release wouldn't be as 
 troublesome, for various reasons[*].  Did that turn out to be
 true?

We will soon find out :)



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/11/2013 11:49 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
 I see nobody's asked when CentOS 7 will be out yet.;-)

well, they can't even really start until RHEL 7 is a done deal and 
released.   Investing too much effort in porting a beta often is wasted 
when the final release has structural changes.




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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
On 12/12/2013 09:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 12/11/2013 11:49 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
 I see nobody's asked when CentOS 7 will be out yet.;-)
 
 well, they can't even really start until RHEL 7 is a done deal and 
 released.   Investing too much effort in porting a beta often is wasted 
 when the final release has structural changes.

Yes, but this seems to indicate otherwise:

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam

That said, there is, of course, no way to even speculate when CentOS 7
final will be released until upstream releases 7.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Johan Vermeulen

Op 12-12-13 08:49, Sorin Srbu schreef:
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
 Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
 Sent: den 11 december 2013 16:56
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

 Hi,

 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/

 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.

 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.
 I see nobody's asked when CentOS 7 will be out yet. ;-)

 Anyway, will be interesting to check out the new gnome.

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just installed it in Vurtualbox. That went fine.

greetings, J.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Alain Péan
Le 12/12/2013 09:28, Peter a écrit :
 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam
 That said, there is, of course, no way to even speculate when CentOS 7
 final will be released until upstream releases 7.

Yes, but experience shows it takes about 6 months after the beta 
release, so I expect it for ~June.
CentOS 6 has been released in November 2010, so it will be 3 years and a 
half after this. There is about 3 years between each major release.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Alain Péan
Le 12/12/2013 10:41, Alain Péan a écrit :
 CentOS 6 has been released in November 2010

Ooops, I meant RHEL 6, of course.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Sorin Srbu
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
 Behalf Of Johan Vermeulen
 Sent: den 12 december 2013 10:44
 To: centos@centos.org
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

 just installed it in Vurtualbox. That went fine.

I did that too, installed to VirtualBox, but didn't get a GUI for some 
reason...

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/12/2013 08:28 AM, Peter wrote:
 well, they can't even really start until RHEL 7 is a done deal and 
 released.   Investing too much effort in porting a beta often is wasted 
 when the final release has structural changes.
 
 Yes, but this seems to indicate otherwise:
 
 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam
 

The overall aim is to have as many people as possible test the rhel7
beta and file bugs at bugzilla.redhat.com; that way everyone is testing
anf doing feedback against the same builds, and we all win with a better
overall end result.

However, we are still going to - slowly maybe - get a CentOS-7 beta
build going, so that CentOS users can start testing their depoyment
strategies, start writing docs at wiki.centos.org, start doing migration
testing etc so that when CentOS-7 comes around for release, its not all
a big surprise.

The reason I say slowly, is because I would like to build a more open
and more inclusive process that allows a larger audience to help build
and promote the resulting distro. Lots of ideas at this point, the
coming weeks should see some of them firm up into a process.

What I will say is : for anyone looking to get involved, start brushing
up your git skills and hang out in irc #centos-devel as and when you can.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings,

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
snip
 strategies, start writing docs at wiki.centos.org, start doing migration
snip

+1
Important considering that new critical things like grub2, systemd,
firewalld and the such.

With rhel7 entering many of us will be baby-sitting at least 4
releases - 4, 5, 6 and 7 at least for couple of more years

I am of course aware that there are many RHEL 2 and possilbly Redhat
Linux 9 boxens out there.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread LEVU BIS
Good informations. I will testing soon. I think I will installed on Virtualbox 
and review.

Nếu có bất cứ vấn đề gì khác, hãy cho chúng tôi biết ngay. 
Cám ơn bạn đã liên hệ với bộ phận chăm sóc khách hàng.

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 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:58:35 +0530
 From: raju.rajs...@gmail.com
 To: centos@centos.org
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public
 
 Greetings,
 
 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
 snip
  strategies, start writing docs at wiki.centos.org, start doing migration
 snip
 
 +1
 Important considering that new critical things like grub2, systemd,
 firewalld and the such.
 
 With rhel7 entering many of us will be baby-sitting at least 4
 releases - 4, 5, 6 and 7 at least for couple of more years
 
 I am of course aware that there are many RHEL 2 and possilbly Redhat
 Linux 9 boxens out there.
 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
On 12/12/2013 11:05 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 
 The overall aim is to have as many people as possible test the rhel7
 beta and file bugs at bugzilla.redhat.com; that way everyone is testing
 anf doing feedback against the same builds, and we all win with a better
 overall end result.

I've installed RHEL7 onto a Xen VM running off a CentOS 6 host.  I used
yum to do the install as opposed to installing from the ISO so I've got
a bit of a unique perspective on it.  Anyways, I'll probably file a few
bugs along the following lines:

The core group includes NetworkManager and postfix, neither should be
core packages and should be excluded from a core or minimal install.

I had problems with selinux and sshd, I had to add a new policy and
autorelabel before it would work with selinux in enforcing mode.  I
think needing to add the policy is probably a bug, but the autorelabel
may be expected considering the rather unusual install method I used.

Problems with the mirrorlist, I had to comment it out and uncomment the
baseurl from the repo file to get yum to work.  I think this is known
and will likely be resolved soon anyways.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/12/2013 11:03 AM, Peter wrote:
 I've installed RHEL7 onto a Xen VM running off a CentOS 6 host.  

this is a great test to have done. Would really like to hear comments
about process and result. I presume this is with the Xen4CentOS stack ?

- KB

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
On 12/13/2013 12:17 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 11:03 AM, Peter wrote:
 I've installed RHEL7 onto a Xen VM running off a CentOS 6 host.  
 
 this is a great test to have done. Would really like to hear comments
 about process and result. I presume this is with the Xen4CentOS stack ?

No, it's with CRCinAU's stack, actually, and mainly because I was
running this server before Xen4CentOS was released.

Oh I forgot to mention the other issue, I'm running it under pvgrub (and
it works fine with a normal grub.conf file, btw, no need to install
grub2 that way), and I had to regenerate the initramfs, the one supplied
with the kernel did not come with the xenblk and xennet drivers
installed.  That was also somewhat expected, though, and not necessarily
a bug, but RHEL7 is supposed to be supported as a Xen domu, so it may be.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
On 12/13/2013 12:30 AM, Peter wrote:
 Oh I forgot to mention the other issue, I'm running it under pvgrub (and
 it works fine with a normal grub.conf file, btw, no need to install
 grub2 that way), and I had to regenerate the initramfs, the one supplied
 with the kernel did not come with the xenblk and xennet drivers
 installed.  That was also somewhat expected, though, and not necessarily
 a bug, but RHEL7 is supposed to be supported as a Xen domu, so it may be.

...and speaking of upstream Xen support, RedHat have actually disabled
Xen Dom0 support in the kernel.  This would be something that they had
to do on purpose, so I'm quite sure that it will be a waste of time to
file a bug on it.  It does mean that assuming that CentOS updates
Xen4CentOS for CentOS 7 you'll need to once again supply the kernel for
the dom0 as you can't get away with just using the stock RedHat one.  On
the bright side the kernel does have dom0 support and will just require
a config file change to enable it, so the dom0 kernel can be just a
rebuild of the stock one and not require a completely different kernel
as is now the case.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:03:55AM +1300, Peter wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 11:05 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
  
 
 The core group includes NetworkManager and postfix, neither should be
 core packages and should be excluded from a core or minimal install.

Fedora, and RedHat, apparently feel that NetworkManager is the way to go.
As I never use it, I'm not sure if they ever fixed the fact that it can't
handle bridges. To me (and I admit I'm an aging grouch), it's the sort of
thing that RH has a bad habit of doing, taking things that aren't
necessarily bad for something like Fedora, aimed at a single user laptop,
and putting it into their system which is often used as a server.

(One can argue about Fedora's use case, but judging from their forums, and
the various changes that have come over the years, I feel that most of
its developers are thinking of a single user laptop.)

Somewhere in the release notes, it states that system-config-network is
being removed in favor of some NetworkManager cli tool.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
On 12/13/2013 01:04 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:03:55AM +1300, Peter wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 11:05 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:


 The core group includes NetworkManager and postfix, neither should be
 core packages and should be excluded from a core or minimal install.
 
 Fedora, and RedHat, apparently feel that NetworkManager is the way to go.
 As I never use it, I'm not sure if they ever fixed the fact that it can't
 handle bridges. To me (and I admit I'm an aging grouch), it's the sort of
 thing that RH has a bad habit of doing, taking things that aren't
 necessarily bad for something like Fedora, aimed at a single user laptop,
 and putting it into their system which is often used as a server.
 
 (One can argue about Fedora's use case, but judging from their forums, and
 the various changes that have come over the years, I feel that most of
 its developers are thinking of a single user laptop.)
 
 Somewhere in the release notes, it states that system-config-network is
 being removed in favor of some NetworkManager cli tool.

Right, but core should be just the bare minimum.  NetworkManager is
certainly not required to configure your network, in fact el7 runs just
fine without it.  Just set your ifcfg-eth0 scripts, etc, and you're good
to go.

I found that I can exclude NM and postfix when group installing core
from yum and it works just fine.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Luigi Rosa
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Peter said the following on 12/12/2013 13:19:

 Right, but core should be just the bare minimum.  NetworkManager is 
 certainly not required to configure your network, in fact el7 runs just 
 fine without it.  Just set your ifcfg-eth0 scripts, etc, and you're good to
 go.

I think that before choosing what should be included in the minimal
installation we must define the goals of the minimal installation.

For instance the MTA is used by some programs to warn/report the SysAdmin;
this could be the reason why the standard MTA is included.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:19:26 +1300
Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote:
 Right, but core should be just the bare minimum.  NetworkManager is
 certainly not required to configure your network, in fact el7 runs
 just fine without it.  Just set your ifcfg-eth0 scripts, etc, and
 you're good to go.

By the same logic you could argue that a text editor is not required
for a bare minimum --- namely, you can always use cat and echo from the
command line to edit the config files.

The point of the text editor in a minimal installation is to make life
easier for a sysadmin. The point of NetworkManager is the same --- it
is included so that you don't have to just set your ifcfg-eth0
scripts.

HTH, :-)
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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On 12/12/2013 06:03 AM, Peter wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 11:05 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 
 The overall aim is to have as many people as possible test the rhel7 beta
 and file bugs at bugzilla.redhat.com; that way everyone is testing anf
 doing feedback against the same builds, and we all win with a better 
 overall end result.
 
 I've installed RHEL7 onto a Xen VM running off a CentOS 6 host.  I used yum
 to do the install as opposed to installing from the ISO so I've got a bit
 of a unique perspective on it.  Anyways, I'll probably file a few bugs
 along the following lines:
 
 The core group includes NetworkManager and postfix, neither should be core
 packages and should be excluded from a core or minimal install.
 
 I had problems with selinux and sshd, I had to add a new policy and 
 autorelabel before it would work with selinux in enforcing mode.  I think
 needing to add the policy is probably a bug, but the autorelabel may be
 expected considering the rather unusual install method I used.
 
 Problems with the mirrorlist, I had to comment it out and uncomment the 
 baseurl from the repo file to get yum to work.  I think this is known and
 will likely be resolved soon anyways.
 
 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 11.12.2013 um 17:03 schrieb Alain Péan alain.p...@lpn.cnrs.fr:
 Le 11/12/2013 16:56, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/
 
 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.
 
 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues athttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 
 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.
 
 There seems to be only x86_64 release ? That would be in the current trend...



that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw (router 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Alain Péan
Le 12/12/2013 14:49, Leon Fauster a écrit :
 that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw 
 (router etc.).

You can still use CentOS 6 or RHEL 6 (maintained until 2020) ? Or buy a 
cheap hardware. They are now all 64 bits.
You cannot say your i586 hw will live this long...

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread m . roth
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
 On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:19:26 +1300
 Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote:
 Right, but core should be just the bare minimum.  NetworkManager is
 certainly not required to configure your network, in fact el7 runs
 just fine without it.  Just set your ifcfg-eth0 scripts, etc, and
 you're good to go.

 By the same logic you could argue that a text editor is not required
 for a bare minimum --- namely, you can always use cat and echo from the
 command line to edit the config files.

 The point of the text editor in a minimal installation is to make life
 easier for a sysadmin. The point of NetworkManager is the same --- it
 is included so that you don't have to just set your ifcfg-eth0
 scripts.

I disagree. NetworkManager is fine... on a laptop, where you're going to
be moving it from network to network. For a wired network - that is, for
any server (remember the Enterprise part of the name?) - it's utterly
unnecessary. And it wall worked fine before NM. And NM has caused problems
on occasion, before we just turned the thing *off*.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 December 2013 14:06, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
  By the same logic you could argue that a text editor is not required
  for a bare minimum --- namely, you can always use cat and echo from the
  command line to edit the config files.
 
  The point of the text editor in a minimal installation is to make life
  easier for a sysadmin. The point of NetworkManager is the same --- it
  is included so that you don't have to just set your ifcfg-eth0
  scripts.

 I disagree. NetworkManager is fine... on a laptop, where you're going to
 be moving it from network to network. For a wired network - that is, for
 any server (remember the Enterprise part of the name?) - it's utterly
 unnecessary. And it wall worked fine before NM. And NM has caused problems
 on occasion, before we just turned the thing *off*.




The NetworkManager in EL6 is pretty poor - everyone knows that.

The NetworkManager in F19/20 (and EL7) is a vastly different beast with
most of the reasons for disabling it in EL6 (bonding, bridging, vlans, etc)
no longer being an issue.

Remember that the standard network service is literally source the relevant
ifcfg-*, rule-* or route-* file and then using the variables just sourced
run shell scripts calling ip addr, ip link, ip route, ip rule, etc to get
the system into the state you want.

One of the drivers behind systemd in the beginning was to avoid arbitrary
shell scripts configuring the system and resulting in the potential for
confusion with selinux contexts and inherited environments when directly
run by a user...

With NM handling the connection the correct details are obtained and then
through the netlink APIs the interfaces configured as per the state desired
without shell scripts and forking all over the place...

Read through the networking documentation, fire up a EL7 system and give it
an honest try:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/Networking_Guide/index.html
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Warren Young
On 12/11/2013 08:56, Karanbir Singh wrote:

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam

In the aftermath of the CentOS 6.0 trauma, I recall there being 
speculation that building the next major release wouldn't be as 
troublesome, for various reasons[*].  Did that turn out to be true?

[*] a) Improved procedures, b) grand works that, done once, don't need 
to be done over again as long as upstream doesn't change the world 
again, etc.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 December 2013 15:32, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote:

 On 12/11/2013 08:56, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 
  Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
  release upsteam

 In the aftermath of the CentOS 6.0 trauma, I recall there being
 speculation that building the next major release wouldn't be as
 troublesome, for various reasons[*].  Did that turn out to be true?

 [*] a) Improved procedures, b) grand works that, done once, don't need
 to be done over again as long as upstream doesn't change the world
 again, etc.


 Well seeing as we haven't had a major release since then it's hard to say
(although times for the point releases to come out have been markedly
short)...

Guess EL7 will be a true test ;)
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Warren Young
On 12/12/2013 09:13, James Hogarth wrote:
 On 12 December 2013 15:32, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote:

 On 12/11/2013 08:56, Karanbir Singh wrote:

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam

 In the aftermath of the CentOS 6.0 trauma, I recall there being
 speculation that building the next major release wouldn't be as
 troublesome, for various reasons[*].  Did that turn out to be true?

 [*] a) Improved procedures, b) grand works that, done once, don't need
 to be done over again as long as upstream doesn't change the world
 again, etc.


   Well seeing as we haven't had a major release since then it's hard to say
 (although times for the point releases to come out have been markedly
 short)...

My assumption when asking is that they had already taken enough of a 
look at the RH7 beta to see if Red Hat had undone the hard work of 
getting CentOS 6 out the door.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/12/13 11:17, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 11:03 AM, Peter wrote:
 I've installed RHEL7 onto a Xen VM running off a CentOS 6 host.
 this is a great test to have done. Would really like to hear comments
 about process and result. I presume this is with the Xen4CentOS stack ?

 - KB

I intend to install it using KVM on CentOS 6.5 host.

I'll post the results.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
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On 12/13/2013 02:45 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
 
 What SELInux issue did you have?  What policy did you need to add?

Unfortunately I've misplaced the audit logs and report of the problem,
but this is the policy I had to add:

module mypol 1.0;

require {
type unconfined_t;
type sshd_net_t;
type kernel_t;
class process { dyntransition transition sigchld };
}

#= kernel_t ==
allow kernel_t sshd_net_t:process dyntransition;
allow kernel_t unconfined_t:process { dyntransition transition };

#= sshd_net_t ==
allow sshd_net_t kernel_t:process sigchld;


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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On 12/12/2013 01:49 PM, Peter wrote:
 On 12/13/2013 02:45 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
 
 What SELInux issue did you have?  What policy did you need to add?
 
 Unfortunately I've misplaced the audit logs and report of the problem, but
 this is the policy I had to add:
 
 module mypol 1.0;
 
 require { type unconfined_t; type sshd_net_t; type kernel_t; class process
 { dyntransition transition sigchld }; }
 
 #= kernel_t == allow kernel_t sshd_net_t:process
 dyntransition; allow kernel_t unconfined_t:process { dyntransition
 transition };
 
 #= sshd_net_t == allow sshd_net_t kernel_t:process
 sigchld;
 
 
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I actually do not think you need these, these were all caused by the
originally mislabeled system.  If you remove your custom policy, I bet it will
work fine.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
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On 12/13/2013 08:20 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
 On 12/12/2013 01:49 PM, Peter wrote:
 On 12/13/2013 02:45 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
 
 What SELInux issue did you have?  What policy did you need to
 add?
 
 Unfortunately I've misplaced the audit logs and report of the
 problem, but this is the policy I had to add:
 
 module mypol 1.0;
 
 require { type unconfined_t; type sshd_net_t; type kernel_t;
 class process { dyntransition transition sigchld }; }
 
 #= kernel_t == allow kernel_t
 sshd_net_t:process dyntransition; allow kernel_t
 unconfined_t:process { dyntransition transition };
 
 #= sshd_net_t == allow sshd_net_t
 kernel_t:process sigchld;
 
 
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 I actually do not think you need these, these were all caused by
 the originally mislabeled system.  If you remove your custom
 policy, I bet it will work fine.

That makes sense.  I will try removing them and see how it goes (any
pointers on how to remove a policy?).


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Peter
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On 12/13/2013 09:26 AM, Peter wrote:
 
 I actually do not think you need these, these were all caused by 
 the originally mislabeled system.  If you remove your custom 
 policy, I bet it will work fine.
 
 That makes sense.  I will try removing them and see how it goes
 (any pointers on how to remove a policy?).

I figured it out, and you are quite correct, it works fine without the
policy.  What I will have to remember is that from now on when doing
this type of install to always do a relabel.


Thanks,


Peter
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:

 Am 11.12.2013 um 17:03 schrieb Alain Péan alain.p...@lpn.cnrs.fr:
  Le 11/12/2013 16:56, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
  http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/
 
  Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
  file reports. Dont use it in production.
 
  As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
  builds from Red Hat and to report issues athttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 
  Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
  release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
  involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
  centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
  CentOS Builds and testing process.
 
  There seems to be only x86_64 release ? That would be in the current
 trend...



 that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw
 (router etc.).


Indeed.
Now RHEL/CentOS won't be able to run on PC Engines ALIX hardware (with PAE
enabled in CentOS 6 the kernel needed recompiled, but that's not too
horrible).  I opted to run another distro, so I never went through all the
work for ALIX hardware.

In a way it's a shame...
At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in
data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.

And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period
of time as well.


It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/
Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc.

Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll be
you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 12.12.2013 um 22:35 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leon Fauster 
 leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:
 
 that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw 
 (router etc.).
 
 Indeed.
 Now RHEL/CentOS won't be able to run on PC Engines ALIX hardware (with PAE
 enabled in CentOS 6 the kernel needed recompiled, but that's not too
 horrible).  I opted to run another distro, so I never went through all the
 work for ALIX hardware.


yep. the same hw here. i had tested openwall os some years ago. They have some 
correlation 
with rhel. Rebuilding rpms from EL should be straight forward but it will lead 
to more work :-)
   


 In a way it's a shame...
 At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in
 data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.
 
 And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period
 of time as well.
 
 It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/
 Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc.

http://www.openwall.com/Owl/


 Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll be
 you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Steve Clark
Does NM need a gui to configure interfaces, etc.

On 12/12/2013 09:40 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
 On 12 December 2013 14:06, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
 By the same logic you could argue that a text editor is not required
 for a bare minimum --- namely, you can always use cat and echo from the
 command line to edit the config files.

 The point of the text editor in a minimal installation is to make life
 easier for a sysadmin. The point of NetworkManager is the same --- it
 is included so that you don't have to just set your ifcfg-eth0
 scripts.
 I disagree. NetworkManager is fine... on a laptop, where you're going to
 be moving it from network to network. For a wired network - that is, for
 any server (remember the Enterprise part of the name?) - it's utterly
 unnecessary. And it wall worked fine before NM. And NM has caused problems
 on occasion, before we just turned the thing *off*.



 The NetworkManager in EL6 is pretty poor - everyone knows that.

 The NetworkManager in F19/20 (and EL7) is a vastly different beast with
 most of the reasons for disabling it in EL6 (bonding, bridging, vlans, etc)
 no longer being an issue.

 Remember that the standard network service is literally source the relevant
 ifcfg-*, rule-* or route-* file and then using the variables just sourced
 run shell scripts calling ip addr, ip link, ip route, ip rule, etc to get
 the system into the state you want.

 One of the drivers behind systemd in the beginning was to avoid arbitrary
 shell scripts configuring the system and resulting in the potential for
 confusion with selinux contexts and inherited environments when directly
 run by a user...

 With NM handling the connection the correct details are obtained and then
 through the netlink APIs the interfaces configured as per the state desired
 without shell scripts and forking all over the place...

 Read through the networking documentation, fire up a EL7 system and give it
 an honest try:

 https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/Networking_Guide/index.html
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:

 Am 12.12.2013 um 22:35 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com:
  On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leon Fauster 
 leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote:
 
  that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw
 (router etc.).
 
  Indeed.
  Now RHEL/CentOS won't be able to run on PC Engines ALIX hardware (with
 PAE
  enabled in CentOS 6 the kernel needed recompiled, but that's not too
  horrible).  I opted to run another distro, so I never went through all
 the
  work for ALIX hardware.


 yep. the same hw here. i had tested openwall os some years ago. They have
 some correlation
 with rhel. Rebuilding rpms from EL should be straight forward but it will
 lead to more work :-)


I have some old embedded boards (older than ALIX) lying around I figured
I'd lab with...
Go figure I had to recompile kernels in order to enable support for certain
chips/devices.



  In a way it's a shame...
  At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware
 in
  data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.
 
  And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period
  of time as well.
 
  It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/
  Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc.

 http://www.openwall.com/Owl/


  Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll be
  you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)

 any suggestions?


I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the
64-bit CPUs you want.  But no ... once you get through the models that have
AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have
Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable.
 And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from
a distributor/reseller).

You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power
consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom systems).

Sorry :-(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors

http://soekris.com/products/net6501-30-board-case.html
http://soekris.com/products/net6501-50-board-case.html
http://soekris.com/products/net6501-70-board-case.html



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 06:47:40PM -0500, Steve Clark wrote:
 Does NM need a gui to configure interfaces, etc.

No, there's some sort of cli tool.  Again, I don't use it. 

You're still able to get rid of it if desired. 

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 11.12.2013 um 16:56 schrieb Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org:
 Hi,
 
 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/
 
 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.
 
 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 
 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.


cool!

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Alain Péan
Le 11/12/2013 16:56, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/

 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.

 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues athttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.

There seems to be only x86_64 release ? That would be in the current 
trend...

Alain

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 11/12/13 16:03, Alain Péan wrote:
 Le 11/12/2013 16:56, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/

 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.

 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues athttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.

 There seems to be only x86_64 release ? That would be in the current
 trend...

 Alain


Correct. RHEL7 will have support for 32-bit apps by way of 32-bit 
compatability libs as is currently the case on 6 (so you can run 32-bit 
apps on a 64-bit system), but from RHEL7 there will be no 32-bit 
installation option.

See the release notes here for details of major changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/7.0_Release_Notes/index.html


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Andrew Wyatt
Thanks for this, looking forward to kicking the tires to see what they did
with GNOME 3.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote:

 Hi,

 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/

 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.

 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.

 Regards,

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Alain Péan
Le 11/12/2013 18:26, Andrew Wyatt a écrit :
 Thanks for this, looking forward to kicking the tires to see what they did
 with GNOME 3.

 From the release notes :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta features the next major version of 
the GNOME Desktop, GNOME 3. The user experience of GNOME 3 is largely 
defined by GNOME Shell, which replaces the GNOME 2 desktop shell. Apart 
from window management, GNOME Shell provides the top bar on the screen, 
which hosts the 'system status' area in the top right, a clock, and a 
hot corner that switches to |Activities Overview|, which provides easy 
access to applications and windows.

The default GNOME Shell interface in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 
is GNOME Classic which features a window list at the bottom of the 
screen and traditional *Applications* and *Places* menus.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 11.12.2013 um 18:51 schrieb Alain Péan alain.p...@lpn.cnrs.fr:
 Le 11/12/2013 18:26, Andrew Wyatt a écrit :
 Thanks for this, looking forward to kicking the tires to see what they did
 with GNOME 3.
 
 From the release notes :
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta features the next major version of 
 the GNOME Desktop, GNOME 3. The user experience of GNOME 3 is largely 
 defined by GNOME Shell, which replaces the GNOME 2 desktop shell. Apart 
 from window management, GNOME Shell provides the top bar on the screen, 
 which hosts the 'system status' area in the top right, a clock, and a 
 hot corner that switches to |Activities Overview|, which provides easy 
 access to applications and windows.
 
 The default GNOME Shell interface in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 
 is GNOME Classic which features a window list at the bottom of the 
 screen and traditional *Applications* and *Places* menus.


RHEL7 without thunderbird :-(

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
 Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
 Sent: den 11 december 2013 16:56
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public
 
 Hi,
 
 http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/
 
 Go get it ( maybe consider using a mirror ), play with it, test it, and
 file reports. Dont use it in production.
 
 As in the past, we highly encourage people to use the official beta
 builds from Red Hat and to report issues at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 
 Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the
 release upsteam, and do it in a manner that allows lots of people to get
 involved and track progress. Keep an eye out on posts on the
 centos-devel list to see how you can get involved and help with the
 CentOS Builds and testing process.

I see nobody's asked when CentOS 7 will be out yet. ;-)

Anyway, will be interesting to check out the new gnome.

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