Re: [CentOS] Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

2011-12-14 Thread Smithies, Russell
] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:58 a.m. To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7 (Final) On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Ron Young ronyo...@nc.rr.com wrote: @Work requires me to manipulate the MS Access

Re: [CentOS] Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

2011-12-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/14/11 6:05 PM, Smithies, Russell wrote: I can connect Perl to Microsoft SQL Server using Sybase drivers it so might work with Access. Parts of this might be useful:http://www.peceny.de/misc/freetds.html Access native databases use the 'Jet' database engine, and they are files accessed

Re: [CentOS] Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

2011-12-14 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Young said the following on 14/12/11 22:21: @Work requires me to manipulate the MS Access database (mdb) file located on an XP box that is an integral part of a third party application that is central to the business. Does anyone have

Re: [CentOS] Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

2011-12-14 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/15/2011 05:45 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote: I used mdbtools http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ This is also found in the epel repository. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, m...@lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] centos-release 5.7 srpm where?

2011-09-18 Thread me
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 09/15/2011 01:17 PM, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: I realize everyone is busy but it would be nice to have at least the srpms that were specific to the centos project with the release. Are you able to find what you are looking for in Vault/5.7 ? Yes,

Re: [CentOS] centos-release 5.7 srpm where?

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/15/2011 01:17 PM, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: I realize everyone is busy but it would be nice to have at least the srpms that were specific to the centos project with the release. Are you able to find what you are looking for in Vault/5.7 ? ( more details on what the thinking behind this is,

Re: [CentOS] centos-release 5.7 srpm where?

2011-09-17 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Are you able to find what you are looking for in Vault/5.7 ? Yes: http://vault.centos.org/5.7/os/SRPMS/ ( more details on what the thinking behind this is, coming shortly ) I'm curious. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] centos-release 5.7 srpm where?

2011-09-15 Thread me
Hi, Is the centos-release srpm for 5.7 available anywhere. I have looked at several mirrors but no srpms are to be found. I realize everyone is busy but it would be nice to have at least the srpms that were specific to the centos project with the release. Regards, -- Tom m

Re: [CentOS] Translate Centos Release Notes into your own non-English Language

2011-07-11 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/11/11, Always Learning cen...@u6.u22.net wrote: Should the Centos Mailing List diversify into non-English language versions ? For example, Chinese (which version?) , Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian etc. etc. ? For example: chin...@centos.org Personally I think that would dilute

[CentOS] Translate Centos Release Notes into your own non-English Language

2011-07-10 Thread Always Learning
Centos 6.0 Release Notes are here http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 Volunteers whose native (or first language) is not English are invited to translate the Release Notes into their own language. There are probably other useful translation tasks to make Centos understandable

[CentOS] Release 5.5 64-bit hangs on boot

2011-03-03 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- I just completed installing the 64-bit version of Release 5.5, and while the installation and initial configuration completed successfully, a full boot-up is never completed successfully. During the system boot-up sequence the list of services appears to complete, but then a blank

Re: [CentOS] Release 5.5 64-bit hangs on boot

2011-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/03/11 10:18 AM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- I just completed installing the 64-bit version of Release 5.5, and while the installation and initial configuration completed successfully, a full boot-up is never completed successfully. During the system boot-up sequence the

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-06-08 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 22-05-10 22:36, Robert Heller schreef: I am not sure if Gentoo or Debian even have 'point releases', at least in the sense that RedHat has done things since way back when. Debian has. Currently they're at 5.0.4. Gentoo is a different matter altogether, their release system is to volatile

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/22/2010 08:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install security updates only. If I understand correctly the preferred way though is to do at least an yum upgrade every 6 months in order to upgrade to a point release. yum-security

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-23 Thread Aniruddha
Thanks all for the replies, this helped me a lot! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-23 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 05/22/2010 08:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install security updates only. If I understand correctly the preferred way though is to do at least an yum upgrade

[CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Aniruddha
Hi, I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? Or is the preferred way to upgrade to each minor version? Thanks in advance! Relevant

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 08:09:22PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: Hi, I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? Or is the preferred way to

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? Or is the

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
On May 22, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Hi, I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? Or is the preferred way to upgrade to

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Aniruddha
Thanks for the quick replies. I understand now that CentOS 5 and all 5.? versions are supported until 2014. How does this work with security updates? Does each point release gets itś own security updates? In other words is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread John R Pierce
Aniruddha wrote: Thanks for the quick replies. I understand now that CentOS 5 and all 5.? versions are supported until 2014. How does this work with security updates? Does each point release gets itś own security updates? In other words is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/22/2010 11:09 AM, Aniruddha wrote: I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? No. As best I understand Red Hat's model, EL 5

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Aniruddha
Coming from Gentoo - Debian I am to trying to understand the way CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you use apt-get update to apply security updates and apt-get dist-upgrade for a major upgrade. In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Michael Lampe
... I understand now ... No, you don't. is it required to upgrade to each point release in order to continue receiving security updates? It's strictly linear and one-dimensional. Point releases only mark a specific point in time, where you get a little bit more, e.g. additional drivers, an

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread William Warren
On 5/22/2010 3:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Coming from Gentoo - Debian I am to trying to understand the way CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you use apt-get update to apply security updates and apt-get dist-upgrade for a major upgrade. In CentOS there is an

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Michael Lampe la...@gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de wrote: ... I understand now ... No, you don't. is it required to upgrade to each point release in order to continue receiving security updates? It's strictly linear and one-dimensional. Point releases only mark a

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 5/22/2010 3:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Coming from Gentoo -  Debian I am to trying to understand the way CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you use apt-get update

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: I can imagine this works fine with vanilla CentOS, however is this still possible when you enable third party repositories such as epel? It varies on the repository, but for the most part the existing repositories try

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
On May 22, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/22/2010 11:09 AM, Aniruddha wrote: I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 22 May 2010 21:39:46 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Coming from Gentoo - Debian I am to trying to understand the way CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you use apt-get update to apply security updates and apt-get dist-upgrade for

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 22 May 2010 21:03:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Thanks for the quick replies. I understand now that CentOS 5 and all 5.? versions are supported until 2014. How does this work with security updates? Does each point release gets itś own security updates? In

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 22 May 2010 22:02:34 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 5/22/2010 3:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Coming from Gentoo -  Debian I am to trying to understand the way

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Note: this is *very* different from how Ubuntu (for example) is numbered.  Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers are just the year.month of the release: Ubuntu 10.4 is just the base release of April of 2010, it is NOT the 4th

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
Another issue with trying to apply just security updates for older point updates is that newer updates may be built differently. On 5.3, a package may not require another package be installed. But at some point later on, say, 5.5, it may gain a dependency. So if you try to install it, it may

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 22 May 2010 16:49:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Note: this is *very* different from how Ubuntu (for example) is numbered.  Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers are just the year.month of

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 22 May 2010 16:36:18 Robert Heller wrote: Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers are just the year.month of the release: Ubuntu 10.4 is just the base release of April of 2010 I didn't know that one! Interesting. Thanks Robert. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Sat, 22 May 2010 16:49:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Note: this is *very* different from how Ubuntu (for example)

[CentOS] centos release 5.5 issue

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Manuel
Hi One of our developers has come across an issue with the new release. He provided this piece of code to show the problem:- cat failure.c #include /usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { return 0; } gcc failure.c /usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:169: error: expected

Re: [CentOS] centos release 5.5 issue

2010-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
Philip Manuel wrote: Hi One of our developers has come across an issue with the new release. He provided this piece of code to show the problem:- snip Anyone else seen this or found a bug with these function definitions ? Yes, confirmed. You should file a bug.

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2010 2:22 AM Tom Brown spake the following: is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released? as far as i knew it was out - at least it seemed to drop on me on the 10th eg centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Remember... releases start to mirror before the official

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-15 Thread Rainer Fuegenstein
yep, the release was pretty close ;-) thanks guys! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Brown
is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released? as far as i knew it was out - at least it seemed to drop on me on the 10th eg centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Brown
On 14 May 2010 10:22, Tom Brown t...@ng23.net wrote: is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released? as far as i knew it was out - at least it seemed to drop on me on the 10th eg centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm or more public http://mirrors.dedipower.com/centos/5.5/os/x86_64

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/14/2010 11:40 AM, James Hogarth wrote: 403's yet on repodata and some other important bits... not all the mirrors updated yet either (eg http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/) 5.5 isnt 'out' yet, were working on getting it to a release stage by close of play today. - KB

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/5/14 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 05/14/2010 11:40 AM, James Hogarth wrote: 403's yet on repodata and some other important bits... not all the mirrors updated yet either (eg http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/) 5.5 isnt 'out' yet, were working on getting it to a release stage

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 May 2010 12:02, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/5/14 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 05/14/2010 11:40 AM, James Hogarth wrote: 403's yet on repodata and some other important bits... not all the mirrors updated yet either (eg http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/)

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/14/2010 12:02 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 5.5 isnt 'out' yet, were working on getting it to a release stage by close of play today. err: looks like 5.5 image is downloadable from: Till such time as centos/5/ points to 5.5/ we strongly discourage people from installing those isos.At the

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Dan Burkland
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:17 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles) On 05/14/2010 12:02 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 5.5

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread Matt
On 05/14/2010 11:40 AM, James Hogarth wrote: 403's yet on repodata and some other important bits... not all the mirrors updated yet either (eg http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/) 5.5 isnt 'out' yet, were working on getting it to a release stage by close of play today. err: looks like 5.5

[CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-13 Thread Rainer Fuegenstein
hi guys, is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released? I'm sitting on needles here, because since I moved my 4*1.5TB raid5 from an asus to an intel D510 mainboard I encounter bug the described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512552 short version: running xfs on top

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-13 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, May 14, 2010 08:50 AM, Rainer Fuegenstein wrote: hi guys, is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released? I'm sitting on needles here, because since I moved my 4*1.5TB raid5 from an asus to an intel D510 mainboard I encounter bug the described here:

Re: [CentOS] Centos-release srpm

2010-04-22 Thread Tom Brown
there are a couple of srpms that are still pending out, I'll get these done over the weekend. did this ever make it out ?? I see there is a bug report for it http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4042 but i dont see the centos-release .src.rpm anywhere still? thanks

Re: [CentOS] Centos-release srpm

2010-04-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/22/2010 11:20 AM, Tom Brown wrote: there are a couple of srpms that are still pending out, I'll get these done over the weekend. did this ever make it out ?? I see there is a bug report for it http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4042 but i dont see the centos-release .src.rpm anywhere

Re: [CentOS] Centos-release srpm

2010-04-22 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:32 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos-release srpm Should get fixed for 5.5 :) I've just built the rpm for centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos-release srpm

2010-04-22 Thread Tom Brown
I've just built the rpm for centos-release 5.5 last night, and the src.rpm is now in the same repo. thats great but any chance of getting hold of the 5.4 .src.rpm? Its just thats the one we need to stop us having to do nasty stuff in the %post in relation to repos thanks

Re: [CentOS] Centos-release srpm

2010-04-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/22/2010 11:53 AM, Tom Brown wrote: I've just built the rpm for centos-release 5.5 last night, and the src.rpm is now in the same repo. thats great but any chance of getting hold of the 5.4 .src.rpm? Its just thats the one we need to stop us having to do nasty stuff in the %post

[CentOS] memory leak observed with valgrind on CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

2010-04-15 Thread Jai Prakash
Hi All, Not sure exactly a memory leak or not. I was porting my nagios from Redhat 7.3 to CentOS 5.4 and I observed the memory usage was gradually increasing on the new centos box. When I ran all my perl plugins with Valgrind -3.2.1, all the plugins complained about a memory leak. Not

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Milos Blazevic wrote: It's going to have an accident, pretty soon, pretty soon. Steve aah!... does anybody smell a BOFH here ;) http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ Regards,

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/31/2010 09:19 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ... Yeah.. and with a fast internet connection it takes LONGER to build up the new rpms from the deltarpms compared to just downloading the new rpms as full packages :) I've noticed that too on my eee 901 with a slow flash disk. yum remove

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: ... Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses the same EL major release for more than 5 years. I

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread William Warren
I'm not surprised at the delay for RHEL 6. Consider 2.x is still supported this means they are supporting 4 different RHEL versions right now. I would actually wait until at least 2.x dies..if not maybe 3.x before spitting out another version. On 4/1/2010 7:16 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 31.03.2010 18:47, schrieb MHR: Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder. I didn't see anything jump

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Afaik it's based on Fedora 12. Recent activity on the EPEL repo mailing list [1] seems to indicate that they plan to branch EPEL-6 packages from Fedora 12. I guess that they are well informed, so this supports the idea that Fedora 12 will be the basis for RHEL 6. [1]

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Benjamin Franz
Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: ... Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses the same EL major release for

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Mathieu Baudier a écrit : Afaik it's based on Fedora 12. Recent activity on the EPEL repo mailing list [1] seems to indicate that they plan to branch EPEL-6 packages from Fedora 12. Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable system was too conservative, given the somewhat

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread R-Elists
They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would get into contract liability if they did). RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009). RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010. RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012 RHEL5 will go out of

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 10:14 AM, R-Elists wrote: They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would get into contract liability if they did). RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009). RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010. RHEL4 will go out of support Feb

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 9:11 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Mathieu Baudier a écrit : Afaik it's based on Fedora 12. Recent activity on the EPEL repo mailing list [1] seems to indicate that they plan to branch EPEL-6 packages from Fedora 12. Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable system was

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread nate
Niki Kovacs wrote: Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable system was too conservative, given the somewhat outdated software. I told him not to mind, since Debian is bleeding edge compared to my OS of choice. Maybe your friend needs another distro, of course everyone knows it's

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: I *just* finished upgrading to CentOS 5.4 6 days ago. How many people got trampled in the rush? ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-1-2010 6:42 AM Benjamin Franz spake the following: Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: ... Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years,

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread R-Elists
RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009). RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010. RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012 Since the world will end in 2012, your version 5 installs will be just fine!!! LOL Scott, hehehe, do you mean

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread R-Elists
I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that still seems like it was a good move even if most of the problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with many years elapsing between releases, skipping a version

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 12:08 PM, R-Elists wrote: I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that still seems like it was a good move even if most of the problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with many years elapsing

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread nate
MHR wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: I *just* finished upgrading to CentOS 5.4 6 days ago. How many people got trampled in the rush? You might be surprised how many outages it takes to co-ordinate such an upgrade in a medium-large environment(and

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:29:26 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 4/1/2010 12:08 PM, R-Elists wrote: I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that still seems like it was a good move even if most of

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 1:35 PM, Robert Heller wrote: I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that still seems like it was a good move even if most of the problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with many years elapsing

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: You might be surprised how many outages it takes to co-ordinate such an upgrade in a medium-large environment(and nobody including me likes to take *everything* down at once though we did have such an outage a few weeks ago

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: CentOSPlus has the firewire drivers... I asked about this a little while back, and I'm pretty sure the firewire drivers are ok in the non-plus CentOS. Or did I get that one wrong? mhr

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread nate
MHR wrote: but I just don't like to do it. 30 systems? Yoik! Out of ~300 .. As for moving from 4 to 5, that's not a trivial thing at all - and it's not an upgrade per se unless you have LOTS of faith in the process. I always reinstall across releases, and that's a royal pain (though

[CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread MHR
Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder. I didn't see anything jump out at me on the Red Hat site, so -

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Stuffins
Has RedHat even released RHEL6? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Paul Stuffins spake: Has RedHat even released RHEL6? Nope. But it's all over town that Red Hat might conduct one or more public (!) beta tests of RHEL within the next several weeks (mind Red Hat Summit in June). Timo -BEGIN PGP

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Stuffins
thus Paul Stuffins spake: Has RedHat even released RHEL6? Nope. But it's all over town that Red Hat might conduct one or more public (!) beta tests of RHEL within the next several weeks (mind Red Hat Summit in June). I didn't think they had, hence no CentOS6. I have actually just been

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Dan Burkland
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stuffins Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Release 6? thus Paul Stuffins spake: Has RedHat even released RHEL6? Nope

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/31/2010 12:48 PM, Paul Stuffins wrote: thus Paul Stuffins spake: Has RedHat even released RHEL6? Nope. But it's all over town that Red Hat might conduct one or more public (!) beta tests of RHEL within the next several weeks (mind Red Hat Summit in June). I didn't think they had,

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Stuffins
Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:22:05 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. *I* gave up on Fedora Core after FC2: I installed it on a dual Pentium Pro 200 box

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. _ I use F12 on my laptop. I have to say it runs very well (definite

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Niki Kovacs
Paul Stuffins a écrit : Has RedHat even released RHEL6? Here's some fresh info: http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3873916/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-55-Released-RHEL-6-Coming-Soon.htm ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:43:38PM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. _

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. I use F12 on my laptop. I have to say it runs very well (definite

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/31/2010 1:58 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. I use F12 on my

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:58:25AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/31/2010 2:19 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:58:25AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Joseph L. Casale
A lot of the work after Fedora 6 seemed to revolve around making single-user desktop type access more convenient at the expense of more general purpose server concepts - and making it boot quickly which isn't a big priority on boxes that run all the time. And some things even when not

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Spiro Harvey
Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder. I vaguely recollect that RH mentioned pushing out the (total)

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: We use F12 headless, so I can't comment on desktop issues, but I really like the deltarpm stuff. It really cuts down on bandwidth requirements on a frequently updated distro like Fedora. Yeah.. and with a fast internet connection it takes LONGER to

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Milos Blazevic
Spiro Harvey wrote: Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder. I vaguely recollect that RH

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