Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-09 Thread Friedrich Clausen
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Alain PORTAL wrote: > Le mercredi 7 janvier 2009 à 16:44, William L. Maltby a écrit : >> rpm --erase and run it. > > This rpm command erase an installed package, not a file in a directory. > > Regards > Alain > -- > La version française des pages de manuel Linux >

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-07 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hi, Thanks for the quick replies guys. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Greg Bailey wrote: > > Hi, > > I've also faced this problem, and you're right: relying on timestamps > and/or sort order of the RPM filenames doesn't work. > > The best tool I've found is "repomanage.py" from the yum-utils p

[CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-07 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hello All, At my $WORK we have lots of in-house applications used to support the services we offer to customers and we deploy these to servers as RPMS. This works well for us except we have thousands of obsolete packages in our Yum repository that need to be cleaned up. What I would like to achiev

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Authentication and Authorisation.

2008-12-02 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hi, On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friedrich Clausen wrote: >> Does anyone have any real world, in the trenches experience they would >> be willing to share? I would like to know which is the most >> maintainable and easy

[CentOS] LDAP Authentication and Authorisation.

2008-12-02 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hello all, At my current job the time has come to unify our LDAP infrastructure into one tree (preferably). The basics are working but we are not sure how to restrict which users can log into which machines. What we would like is for everyone in the (for example) "infra" group to log into all mac

Re: [CentOS] Re: Rpmbuild and how to disable automatic dependency list creation.

2008-09-29 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Mikael Fridh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:47:55PM +0200, Friedrich Clausen wrote: >> To Reply to myself - >> >> The method I am using with ~/.rpmmacros to stop the "find_requires" >>

[CentOS] Re: Rpmbuild and how to disable automatic dependency list creation.

2008-09-29 Thread Friedrich Clausen
To Reply to myself - The method I am using with ~/.rpmmacros to stop the "find_requires" and "perl_requires" does not actually work. Apologies for implying it does. Any suggestions on how to do this are much appreciated. Cheers, Fred. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Fried

[CentOS] Rpmbuild and how to disable automatic dependency list creation.

2008-09-29 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hello All, When I build RPM packages, rpmbuild always scans all the executables, shared libs, perl scripts, etc. to find out which external libraries the application depends on. This is normally a Good Thing but I am currently packaging an in-house, self contained application. I could almost use

Re: [CentOS] Perhaps slightly OT - Lots of spurious webdav requests.

2008-09-15 Thread Friedrich Clausen
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Monday, September 15, 2008 10:05 AM +0200 Friedrich Clausen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have most assuredly not told windows to try and use a Web folder on >> the CentOS f

[CentOS] Perhaps slightly OT - Lots of spurious webdav requests.

2008-09-15 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hello All, I am running a CentOS 4.6 file server for a small office network and I am getting a lot of strange webdav requests from one of the Windows workstations - I have not configured Webdav on the Windows host (hereafter "windows-laptop") in question. Some details - I have configured a Samba