Re: leapp-upgrade from SL79 to AL89 ?

2024-05-28 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[EXTERNAL] – This message is from an external sender On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:08 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia mailto:nka...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I did this sort of stunt years ago with previous Red HGat and RHEL, > and even had some tools to switch Scientific Linux releases to the > matching CentOS

Re: XFS vs Ext4

2023-12-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:51 AM Paul Robert Marino wrote: > With NFS always go with EXT4 because NFS isn't compatible with 64bit inodes, so you need to disable a flag with XFS for "inode64" which means on files over 2GB XFS' will need to create multiple inodes instead of 1 at the beginning of the

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2022-12-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 1:45 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > - NFS-Root support. Last I tried, RHEL-8 would not NFS-boot without major > effort. Diskless clients (NFS root) are working fine for me with AlmaLinux 9.1. The main prerequisite is installing the "readonly-root" package. > - NIS

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] devtoolset-12?

2022-10-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
e SL7 source repo because they > were needed to build the new firefox and thunderbird packages. > > I try to have the sources for our build chain up where folks can grab > them if they feel so inclined. > > Hope all is well > > (also) Pat > > On Mon, 2022-10-03 at 17:

devtoolset-12?

2022-10-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
I usually get the "Developer Toolset" from the CentOS SCLO repo:

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:45 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > It's getting harder. Singularity containers for CentOS 8 (and latest Ubuntu etc.) work fine on SL7, for now. Of course this is not a long-term solution, since "kernel too old" will surely crop up eventually. This is an awful decision

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:58 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > So - who else is contemplating a move to Debian? We will be following CERN and Fermilab's lead, whatever that is. But the longer we go without knowing, the more uncomfortable we get. Anybody have any inside information on their thinking?

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 5:28 AM Mark Rousell wrote: > > > It's difficult to say anything about SystemD without it becoming political/religious but my impression is that the bloat and mission creep that SystemD seems in many people's views to suffer from (i.e. it is no longer just an init system)

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:01 PM Yasha Karant wrote: > > Was Torvalds behind SystemD, etc.? Just curious. Are you joking? systemd is the creation of Red Hat employee (and professional idiot) Lennart Poettering. Worst thing that ever happened to Linux.

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
It has been almost exactly seven years since Red Hat bought CentOS (

Re: SL 6

2020-10-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:21 AM Larry Linder < 0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort. > > We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all > of our cad tools work. There are some

Re: Calibre current

2020-01-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:02 PM Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Yasha Karant wrote: > > > > Calibre needs RuntimeError: Failed to load icu with error: > > /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by > > /opt/calibre/lib/libicui18n.so.64) > > I'm

Re: Q: Centos vs SL

2019-09-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
(five years on...) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:25 AM Jos Vos wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:22:23PM -0600, davef...@protev.com wrote: > > > Now that Redhat has bought Centos... > > Red Hat did not buy CentOS. I guess he should have said "acquired".

Re: clang and Scientific Linux

2015-08-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Keith Smith fernlea...@gmail.com wrote: I have looked for solutions on the web and many are partial or requiring complete source build of clang. Clang is actually pretty easy to build from source. And it comes with extensive unit tests, so if make check

Re: SL 7.2

2015-07-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting more and more inclined to give SL 7 a complete miss, and see if SL 8 will be contemporary enough to ease my backporting work. Or switch to a distribution with an explicit policy of we will never adopt

Re: nfsv4 and rpcidmapd

2015-06-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/526302 Assuming you are using FQDNs and the host's domain matches the Kerberos domain, it sounds like you can simply comment out the Domain = line in idmapd.conf. (I vaguely recall localdomain having special meaning in

Re: RSTe ???

2015-05-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:56 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi Pat, Thank you! Would it be faster, slower, or about the same as a dedicated LSI (or similar) controller when used in a high end workstation? It is the same as any other software RAID. If you do a search for

Re: QA: Centos vs SL

2014-11-27 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jos Vos j...@xos.nl wrote: Red Hat did not buy CentOS. They employ the principals and own the trademark. Are you saying they got them for free?

Current SL 6.5 security repo breaks X11 for Kickstart w/ updates

2014-11-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Executive summary: If you include repo .../updates/security in your 6.5 Kickstart config, add xorg-x11-drivers to your %packages section. ... For 6.6, Red Hat scattered the X server's driver modules into a ton of xorg-x11-drv-* packages and added a master xorg-x11-drivers that depends on all of

Re: kickstart packages question

2014-10-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: If I put in a group to be installed that includes a package I don't want to install what's the proper way to set that up? Not sure about proper, but I have found that -Package in the %packages

Re: glibc-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm

2014-07-09 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Assuming that the kernel has not been built against glibc 2.15, is there any relatively simple way to allow the user application to use the required glibc but to keep the kernel and related systems binary programs on the

Re: Clarity on current status of Scientific Linux build

2014-07-01 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: ??? That is not at all what I got from his reply. What I got was that CERN will still be committing resources, but instead of duplicating effort they're joining up with the CentOS effort. Whatever. The relevant questions are:

Re: Clarity on current status of Scientific Linux build

2014-07-01 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:09 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2014-07-01 08:16, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: The *goal* of CentOS used to be binary compatibility, even if it was never 100% achieved. Since the acquisition by Red Hat, that is no longer even the goal, for obvious reasons

Re: [SL-Users] Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: I find it puzzling that official announcements say nothing about CentOS trademarks, copyrights, etc being transferred to Red Hat - as that web page seems to imply. It is also mentioned in Red Hat's FAQ:

Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Jos Vos j...@xos.nl wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:49:51AM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: [...] (Always remember that companies, like politicians, do not make statements to communicate information. They make statements to achieve a desired result

Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:06 PM, David Sommerseth da...@sommerseths.net wrote: On 15/01/14 19:49, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: - Red Hat (the company) considers Oracle (the company) one of their top two competitors. - Red Hat considers CentOS a competitor. - Red Hat believes acquiring

Re: [SL-Users] Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:34 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: Red Hat does not own CentOS, either the product nor the project. Red Hat does not own the various marks. Wrong. http://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/ The CentOS Marks are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. - Pat

Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 01/15/2014 11:27 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: so, rather than looking at an opinion blog, why dont you go read the actual announcement ? see if that mentions this little detail... Do you mean Red Hat's

RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
RedHat is a company. Companies exist for the sole purpose of making money. Every action by any company -- literally every single action, ever -- is motivated by that goal. The question you should be asking is: How does Red Hat believe this move is going to make them money? Those were statements

Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
precisely, of being highly selective with the truth. Also again, I could be wrong. Time will tell. - Pat On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Z form...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick, Why do you think oracle's spinoff is their major competition? On Jan 14, 2014 12:47 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti lopre

Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

2014-01-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
So I decided to check the Competition section of Red Hat's annual SEC regulatory filing (10-K): http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1087423/000119312513173724/d484576d10k.htm#tx484576_1 (see pages 11-13) Oracle and Microsoft are each mentioned seven times in this section, far more than any