Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.5 (1804) and NetworkManager

2018-05-15 Thread Michael Lampe
Gnome's control-center now requires NetworkManager-wifi. But it's only a soft requirement, no shared libs involved. To keep your workstation NM-free, you want to install a dummy package that provides NetworkManager-wifi but actually contains nothing, ideally before updating to 7.5. Here's a

Re: [CentOS] ssh connections not closing when Qt application is opened?

2014-12-01 Thread Michael Lampe
Dave Johansen wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086971 I have been able to reproduce the above issue on my home network and at work, but RedHat is claiming it is not a bug, so can some people on this list give it a try and see if they can reproduce it? If you connect with

[CentOS] RH fucks up quite often recently

2014-03-14 Thread Michael Lampe
Latest really rude show stoppers were/are: el6: - librsvg2: your private fork bomb for gnome - kernel: scheduler completely broken on numa systems - qt: kde unusable when going up from -26 to -28 el5: - firefox hangs on quit after latest ESR update - (totem plugins no longer work too) What I

Re: [CentOS] 3g usb dongle - Huawei E1552

2014-01-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Christo Larsen wrote: Running Centos 6.4 6.5 is current, nobody cares for 6.4 anymore. Any Idea´s? Put it into a Windows machine to switch it once. Then send it something like AT^U2DIAG=0 over the serial line to switch it permanently. -Michael

Re: [CentOS] I want to ask about some Kernel level operations.

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Lampe
Eliezer wrote: What would be a clean buildroot for? Well, only God himself did the initial creative work just once -- after that, He let things go, because it was already to complicated even for Him -- or perfect. Anyway, because He had not planned doing it again and reiterate, we now have

Re: [CentOS] Serial Console Config in 6.5

2013-12-22 Thread Michael Lampe
Camron W. Fox wrote: After upgrading from 6.4 to 6.5, our serial console configuration non longer work. We have the following upstart file: ... According to the comments in /etc/init/serial.conf you shouldn't have a /etc/init/ttyS0.conf or do anything to /etc/securetty. This is all handled

[CentOS] Build environment for totem-2.16.7-7.el5_6.1.src.rpm

2013-12-07 Thread Michael Lampe
This package has a build requirement 'gecko-devel' which is fulfilled by 'xulrunner-devel'. But in the process of building the browser plugins two tools named 'xpidl' and 'xpt_link' are necessary. They werde once part of 'gecko-devel' but are now replaced by other tools. I haven't found any

Re: [CentOS] Apple movie trailers on Centos6/Firefox

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Lampe
Fred Smith wrote: Apparently I'm the only Centos user who is unable to view the quicktime trailers,... or maybe nobody but me is interested. Assuming you have the necessary codecs installed, it still doesn't work, because Apple checks your QuickTime-Version with some piece of Javascript. It

Re: [CentOS] skype not starting anymore, prelink issue?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Lampe
Yves Bellefeuille wrote: This point has already been answered on this mailing list (and elsewhere). A bit of search in the archives and elsewhere would quickly bring you this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype I'm very familiar with that document. :-) And many users, including myself,

[CentOS] A couple of 32-bit packages got no update in 6.3/x86_64

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Lampe
Namely: * hivex * hivex-devel * librdmac * librdmac-devel * sanlock-libs * sanlock-devel and maybe others. Is this on purpose (I don't know if upstream has removed or updated the 32-bit rpms, but the old ones are still in C6.3/x86_64), or is it just the usual sloppyness (I've been told here

Re: [CentOS] Maintainer for Krita on CentOS

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Lampe
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: erm... that is going to mean that everytime there is an update for either QT or anything that it links into or anything that is in a lib associated down that chain - the entire stack needs to be rebuilt. Are you sure this is a good idea ? I'm not sure, but the guy

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Lampe
Marc Deop wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 20:39:03 Michael Lampe wrote: So I can build, but the resulting RPM cannot be installed -- if not forced. (No problems then as everything is there.) Why don't you add the files needed as dependencies to the spec file? (it's one of the beautis

[CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
I'm building my own openmpi packages derived from upstream SRPMs. Problem: The ones built with Intel's compiler can only be installed by force, because Intel doesn't register their provided libs with rpm. Any idea how this can be done? (Alternative ideas are appreciated as well -- as long as

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
Frank Cox wrote: A dependency is supposed to be something that's required for a program to work. Removing the dependency from the rpm won't magically make a program work if it really does require the functionality provided by that dependency. It's there. Just not registered with rpm. --

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
Frank Cox wrote: Edit the dependency list to suit. Maybe I was too dumb to properly explain it: The Intel stuff is there implicitly. And it _is_ needed. Both for building and then running. But it's not registered with rpm by Intel! So I _can_ build, but the resulting RPM cannot be installed

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I totally lost you. No problem. Play the game of chess like your namesake did so well. :) Please provide specifics, what package, is it in rpm or not, details please, so we do not chase out own tails. Gimme a trick: How to unregister an implicit but formally

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
Frank Cox wrote: Gimme a trick: How to unregister an implicit but formally unavailable runtime dependency in a spec file? I've given you the solution twice. Here is a more detailed description of the exact lines that you need to edit in the spec file:

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: Have you tried to make a fake src.rpm package that provides this 'libfoo' and install it ? It didn't need to install anything just tell to the rpm library that it provides 'libfoo'. Normally, I leave the building straightforward. Of course, I

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
John Stanley wrote: AutoProvReq: no Seemed like a good hint, but doesn't do the trick on 5.7. The RPMs still require the Intel libs. Hmmm ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Lampe
Les Mikesell wrote: Have you tried to make a fake src.rpm package that provides this 'libfoo' and install it ? It didn't need to install anything just tell to the rpm library that it provides 'libfoo'. Normally, I leave the building straightforward. Of course, I can also climb to

Re: [CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Lampe
Michael Lampe wrote: In other words: my BIOS is broken. But it's broken for all Lenovo Notebooks. So ... It seems mine is particularly broken: The BIOS isn't even lying, it realy disables ASPM! That at least is my conclusion after looking at this https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Kernel

[CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Lampe
After going from CentOS 5.7 to 6.2, a lot of things turned out to be much better, but there are also quite some regressions. The most obvious one is power consumption on my notebook. It was notably lower before. The ASPM issue introduced in 2.6.38 was widely reported and discussed, and the

Re: [CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Lampe
Patrick Lists wrote: Iirc to enable ASPM on Fedora the kernel must be booted with pcie_aspm=force. Maybe you need to use that option too? For more info see: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_aspm_solutionnum=1 That's no general solution. It may work, but (e.g.) it

Re: [CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Lampe
Rob Kampen wrote: So for those of us that do not understand the intricacies of ASPM / BIOS / ACPI, how do we ensure we are getting the best (least) power consumption? Hey! I was asking for people who can help me backport the upstream fix! I have a new ASUS G73S with i7 8 core processor -

Re: [CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Lampe
Michael Lampe wrote: Iirc to enable ASPM on Fedora the kernel must be booted with pcie_aspm=force. Maybe you need to use that option too? For more info see: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_aspm_solutionnum=1 That's no general solution. It may work, but (e.g

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Biarch is actually only needed for libraries and support packages. Running native i386 application on x86_64 does not make much sense (third-party apps are another thing). I also like the option to compile, run, test, debug, etc. my own programs as 32 bit. That's

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Les Mikesell wrote: Why not use a virtual machine for that and have a cleaner separation of the architectures? Biarch runs natively and therfore faster, it can use hardware-accelerated OpenGL, it is easier to setup and use, and it is fully supported by TUV. To me the separation of

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Reindl Harald wrote: compilers and devel-packages should usually be seperated from working-computers and the compiled software packed as RPM in a dedicated vritual machine I'm using CentOS not only as a mail/web/etc. server, but also on my development workstation, on a compute server and on

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Reindl Harald wrote: compiling is not the problem Indeed. And thanks to biarch, this works ootb. there is ONE virtual machine neough for all users Biarch reduces this even to one less: none. It's obvioulsy the simpler solution. however i can not imagine a usecase for 32bit software these

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Johnny Hughes wrote: There is a variable in yum.conf called multilib_policy ... The default in CentOS 5 is all ... the default in CentOS 6 is best. Ah, ok. Part of my playing around with 6.2 ist finding all the differences with respect to 5.x. ;) I can tell you that I would personally use

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Maybe we're talking about different things here. I'm definitely not talking about how to build a distribution. That's why I'm using your's on not running my own. I'm talking about the usefulness of biarch. Not in the sense of building packages for redistribution, especially not as RPMs. It's

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Reindl Harald wrote: you need not to build a distribution to build clean packages in a clean build-envirnonment - this is simply in your own interest over the long and any quick dirty solution will eat your time later Please tell me in detail what ends up quick and dirty, when doing what

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
(Sorry to be a little talkative today, but I will easily refute everything.) Les Mikesell wrote: If you are moving binaries to any other machine, you are likely to have odd failures if you don't carefully control the libraries in the build environment. The linker doesn't and cannot link

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Reindl Harald wrote: it IS DIRTY because it does NOT remove obsoleted files and yes i have seen environemnets where as example mysql did not compile any longer as long all pieces of the old version were not deleted manually Hardly ever do I type 'make install'. I stick to

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Reindl Harald wrote: on a clean environment $HOME does not contain software this is the apple-way having binaries running where your user have write-access and from the viewpoints of security and modern system-managment worst practice The three Federal Computing Centers in Germany (Juelich,

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Les Mikesell wrote: You _can_ cross-compile code for a whole bunch of different environments. That doesn't make it a particularly good idea, even if it does happen to be fairly easy in this one particular case. How many cases do you want to support? Exactly this one. The only relevant

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Lampe
John R Pierce wrote: who says he's building system packages?I got the impression he's building his own applications, stuff that typically runs in $HOME rather than /usr or whatever. Exactly. Wasn't that clear from the very beginning? -Michael

[CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Lampe
I'm experimenting with 6.2 now. Things seem to be really great so far! Distribution closure is one of my favourite pets. So I tried to install everything. I found only one problem, but that's another (minor) thing. But I found almost nothing under /usr/lib. So, Biarch is really dead? Funny!

Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Lampe
nope. its actually quite a major pain to manage.. you forgot to mention what you installed, how you did it and what you expected V/s achieved I have installed all the packages from the two x86_64 DVDs with (eventually): yum install --exclude=ovirt\* \* I'm not using any

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] how to upgrade gtk on centos 4.8

2010-04-07 Thread Michael Lampe
Tommy Zong wrote: My centos is 4.8 while I need gtk 2.8 or later. How to upgrade GTK? You can't without breaking everything. But you can install an alternative version alongside and make sure that only the programs that need it are using it (that means you _can't_ just install to /usr/local).