Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an upgrade of glib2 by RedHat in RHEL

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Mark Stodola
On 03/26/2015 06:51 PM, Kevin K wrote: On Mar 26, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Tim Kanuka tim.kan...@lightsource.ca wrote: I think having a EPEL mirror in the way described by Steve is an excellent idea. It exactly parallels my own requirement (and I suppose any site's requirement) of managing updates to many machines. The only way to

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Steve Gaarder
In that case, I'm thinking that it could be useful to maintain an EPEL mirror that does not get updated between TUV's release and the SL release. I could do that for my own use or it could be a community effort. Thoughts? Steve Gaarder System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics Cornell

RE: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Tim Kanuka
I think having a EPEL mirror in the way described by Steve is an excellent idea. It exactly parallels my own requirement (and I suppose any site's requirement) of managing updates to many machines. The only way to guarantee that you are not going to break something with an update is to test

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Yasha, this is getting tiresome - your continuing use of this mailing list to obtain free technical support for (imho) bizarre problems or wishes - most of them complete with pity pledges please help me, our IT nazi would give me no soup (as in Soup Nazi,

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Yasha Karant
That second NIC appears to be my only option. A colleague down the hall does exactly that. If I did attempt NAT, as was suggested, unless the device actually attached to the RJ-45 802.3 LAN port in the wall has the exact same MAC address, etc., as the NIC on my workstation, the local IT

Re: SL 7.1 schedule? (was Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo)

2015-03-27 Thread Mark Stodola
On 03/27/2015 01:39 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: It would be very helpful to me if I could have some idea of when SL 7.1 is likely to emerge. That will tell me whether I can just wait or need to come up with some kind of workaround for the EPEL problem. thanks, Steve Gaarder System Administrator,

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/03/15 18:01, Steve Gaarder wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Akemi Yagi wrote: One thing that is different from EPEL is that ELRepo's el7.1 packages that are _not_ backward compatible will not install on systems 7.1. yum will complain. My understanding is that EPEL packages do not have such

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin K
It isn’t so much the USB. USB as a design is a master/slave relationship. So you cannot connect 2 normal computers together with an USB cable. It doesn’t matter what you are wanting to do with it. There have been special USB cables in the past with some smarts in the middle so each computer

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Kevin K kevi...@fidnet.com wrote: It isn’t so much the USB. USB as a design is a master/slave relationship. So you cannot connect 2 normal computers together with an USB cable. It doesn’t matter what you are wanting to do with it. Use two USB ethernet