Security erratas in SL repositories

2012-10-22 Thread Olivier Mauras 
 

Hello,

I'm trying to set in place a centralized patch management
for my SL installations with pulp.
After synchronizing a few
repositories, i noted that pulp wasn't seeing any erratas in the
repos.
The actual issue is that SL repos don't provide any
updateinfo.xml file.

Any reason for that? Is that a desired state?
Could it be possible to work this out - maybe recreating them from
another source or such ?

Regards,
Olivier

Security erratas in SL repositories

2012-10-22 Thread Olivier Mauras 
 

Hello,

I'm trying to set in place a centralized patch management
for my SL installations with pulp.
After synchronizing a few
repositories, i noted that pulp wasn't seeing any erratas in the
repos.
The actual issue is that SL repos don't provide any
updateinfo.xml file.

Any reason for that? Is that a desired state?
Could it be possible to work this out - maybe recreating them from
another source or such ?

Regards,
Olivier 

Ps: Sorry for the bad
posting of my first message

Distribution and Web server were down earlier today

2012-10-22 Thread Connie Sieh 

Earlier today starting at 7:30 am CDT we had a scheduled power outage.

The computer center room hosting the following Scientific Linux systems
went down and is in the process of service restoration.

  www.scientificlinux.org
  ftp.scientificlinux.org
  ftp1.scientificlinux.org
  rsync.scientificlinux.org
  listserv that serves the Scientific Linux mailing lists

The whole building is on UPS/Generator.  There was a "fire sensor" which 
tripped the "Emergency Power OFF" of the computer room that houses these 
systems.  The computer room is slowing getting back online.  Since the 
listserv system is in this computer room I have not been able to send out 
a notice of this outage until now.


-Connie Sieh

SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-10-22 Thread Yasha Karant 
Because my institution has elected to (mostly) go "paperless", I have a 
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 (USA version) under some recent Android 
environment, ARM CPU platform.  After several days of using the unit as 
an end-user portable computer (e.g., for PDF editing, office suite, 
email, web browser, video conference as needed, and 802.11 connectivity, 
etc., but not for coding or typical scientific applications), I am 
considering attempting to switch it it to Linux.  Evidently, there is 
both an Ubuntu and Arch distribution for some versions of the ARM 
platform -- any versions of EL for this platform?  Anyone using Linux on 
this platform?


I do have the USB adapter for Samsung and can mount, read, write, and 
unmount a typical USB flash drive that has a MS Windows format file 
system, and thus am able to transfer files from a linux environment.  I 
have not yet tested this adapter with an external USB CD/DVD unit and 
standard ISO 9660 media.


If not, and there are any members of this list who also use this sort of 
platform under Android, off list correspondence and recommendations 
would be appreciated (e.g., how to get bash working, how to get non-GUI 
file and directory manipulation commands, etc.).  Typical amateur 
end-user material that I have seen on some of the Android lists (e.g., 
the use as an entertainment device) is of less use to me.  Several of my 
students have discussed "rooting" Android to get around the limitations 
imposed by the environment and getting closer to the underlying linux 
core (that is missing most of the support programs and APIs that make 
functional a regular linux distribution), but I need to more fully 
understand the consequences for this approach before proceeding (as well 
as getting detailed how-to instructions).


Thanks for any information.

Yasha Karant

Re: Distribution and Web server were down earlier today

2012-10-22 Thread Steven Miano 
Thanks for the update Connie! We were wondering what was going on during a
few installs that weren't going through for us (yum couldn't reach the
mirrors at all).

Is there a future plan to become more geo-redundant at all?

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Connie Sieh  wrote:

> Earlier today starting at 7:30 am CDT we had a scheduled power outage.
>
> The computer center room hosting the following Scientific Linux systems
> went down and is in the process of service restoration.
>
>   www.scientificlinux.org
>   ftp.scientificlinux.org
>   ftp1.scientificlinux.org
>   rsync.scientificlinux.org
>   listserv that serves the Scientific Linux mailing lists
>
> The whole building is on UPS/Generator.  There was a "fire sensor" which
> tripped the "Emergency Power OFF" of the computer room that houses these
> systems.  The computer room is slowing getting back online.  Since the
> listserv system is in this computer room I have not been able to send out a
> notice of this outage until now.
>
> -Connie Sieh
>



-- 
 Miano, Steven M.
http://stevenmiano.com

Re: Security erratas in SL repositories

2012-10-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison 

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Olivier Mauras wrote:


Hello,

I'm trying to set in place a centralized patch management
for my SL installations with pulp.
After synchronizing a few
repositories, i noted that pulp wasn't seeing any erratas in the
repos.
The actual issue is that SL repos don't provide any
updateinfo.xml file.

Any reason for that? Is that a desired state?
Could it be possible to work this out - maybe recreating them from
another source or such ?


The SL6rolling security updates directory now includes an
updateinfo.xml file. I only noticed this recently, so guess that
it is a new feature.

--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk   http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-10-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison 

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Yasha Karant wrote:

Because my institution has elected to (mostly) go "paperless", I have a 
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 (USA version) under some recent Android environment, 
ARM CPU platform.  After several days of using the unit as an end-user 
portable computer (e.g., for PDF editing, office suite, email, web browser, 
video conference as needed, and 802.11 connectivity, etc., but not for coding 
or typical scientific applications), I am considering attempting to switch it 
it to Linux.  Evidently, there is both an Ubuntu and Arch distribution for 
some versions of the ARM platform -- any versions of EL for this platform? 
Anyone using Linux on this platform?


http://www.redsleeve.org/ appears to be a port of TUV to ARM.

--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk   http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: Security erratas in SL repositories

2012-10-22 Thread Olivier Mauras 
 

On 2012-10-23 06:09, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: 

> On Mon, 22 Oct
2012, Olivier Mauras wrote:
> 
>> Hello, I'm trying to set in place a
centralized patch management for my SL installations with pulp. After
synchronizing a few repositories, i noted that pulp wasn't seeing any
erratas in the repos. The actual issue is that SL repos don't provide
any updateinfo.xml file. Any reason for that? Is that a desired state?
Could it be possible to work this out - maybe recreating them from
another source or such ?
> 
> The SL6rolling security updates directory
now includes an
> updateinfo.xml file. I only noticed this recently, so
guess that
> it is a new feature.

Ah true... Any chance to see them in
fixed version repos?