Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:10 -0600, James Szinger wrote: > My typical approach is to run `package-cleanup --leaves --all` or > `yum > leaves` (might need software not on CentOS 8) and justify everything > that is there. I have about 85 leaf packages on a CentOS 7 web > server, so a minimal package

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 20:24 +0200, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-remove-orphaned-packages-on-centos-linux > > > > It worked for me: > > > > Get a list of orphaned packages: > > > > $ package-cleanup --leaves > > > > Remove them: > > > > # yum remove `packag

[CentOS] How do I install the "right" python3-tkinter in CentOS Stream 8?

2021-09-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
In CentOS Stream 8, A yum upgrade just upgraded platform-python to platform-python-3.6.8-41.el8.x86_64.rpm. The upgrade wouldn't go through until I removed python3-tkinter-3.6.8-40.el8.x86_64. Now I want to reinstall python3-tkinter, and the only version yum is offering is 3.6.8-40, and it offers

Re: [CentOS] How do I install the "right" python3-tkinter in CentOS Stream 8?

2021-09-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 11:49 -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > In CentOS Stream 8, A yum upgrade just upgraded platform-python to > platform-python-3.6.8-41.el8.x86_64.rpm. The upgrade wouldn't go > through until I removed python3-tkinter-3.6.8-40.el8.x86_64. > > Now I want

Re: [CentOS] How do I install the "right" python3-tkinter in CentOS Stream 8?

2021-09-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 17:09 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > The python3-tkinter package is a sub package of the python3 source > package, which includes platform-python. They are versioned > together, so you can’t upgrade one without needing the updates for > the other. > > Since python3-tkinte

Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 09:25 +0300, Benson Muite wrote: > Hi, > > Will Ruby on Cent OS 8 be upgraded, the current version 2.5.9 has > reached EOL. I remember being told that while the older version of Ruby is EOL as far as the Ruby project goes, Red Hat developers still backport security fixes fo

Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-17 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 02:15 +0100, Markus Falb wrote: > Rocky 8.5 has gained support for secure boot > https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-5-ga-release/ > > Big step for Rocky. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/

Re: [CentOS] centos 8-Streams kernel?

2023-01-07 Thread Steven Rosenberg
If you want to follow CentOS Stream development, I have two websites that grab CentOS-supplied XML and publish blog entries of updated packages whenever that happens: https://centos.passthejoe.net/ https://passthejoe.tilde.institute/centos/ Both websites have the same content. Frustration with C

Re: [CentOS] centos 8-Streams kernel?

2023-01-09 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 7:34 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > > One thing to note is, we are currently working on moving the c8s process > to use the same workflow as the c9s process. That will happen later > this year. Right now, I only build what releases to git.centos.org for > the c8s branch for th

Re: [CentOS] Centos Stream 9 module list

2023-01-14 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 2:02 PM Josh Boyer wrote: Ultimately, the Red Hat teams are using modularity where they believe > it makes sense and using regular packaging to reduce complexity for > customers where it doesn't provide much benefit. > Thanks for the explanation. For those who want to kn

Re: [CentOS] Centos Stream 9 module list

2023-01-14 Thread Steven Rosenberg
My "use case" for modules was getting a newer version of Ruby, but now I notice that EPEL also ships newer Ruby versions. On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 12:09 PM Steven Rosenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 2:02 PM Josh Boyer wrote: > > Ultimately, the Red Hat t

Re: [CentOS] How will fragmentation help Red Hat

2023-07-23 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 4:21 AM Josh Boyer wrote: > > Competition in the Enterprise Linux space is a good thing. If a > company or community other than Red Hat starts serving a market that > RHEL can't, it forces Red Hat to evaluate and adjust. It keeps > everyone pushing and developing solutio

[CentOS] It's been six days since CVD-2021-33909 was patched in RHEL, what's the holdup for Stream 8?

2021-07-26 Thread Steven Rosenberg via CentOS
This bug in the kernel was patched in RHEL on 7/20. Every other mainstream Linux distro patched it that day or the day after. That includes Rocky and Alma. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33909 It's still not patched six days later in CentOS Stream 8. This Bugzilla entry makes i

Re: [CentOS] It's been six days since CVD-2021-33909 was patched in RHEL, what's the holdup for Stream 8?

2021-07-28 Thread Steven Rosenberg via CentOS
Linux 8 > and CentOS Stream 8. No one is happy about how much longer this > particular update is taking. The Stream model brings massive changes > to the RHEL workflows, so no one should be surprised that there are > growing pains. > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:02 PM Stev

Re: [CentOS] It's been six days since CVD-2021-33909 was patched in RHEL, what's the holdup for Stream 8?

2021-07-29 Thread Steven Rosenberg via CentOS
Thanks to everybody involved. I did the update this morning. Jul 28, 2021, 8:18 PM by c...@redhat.com: > kernel-4.18.0-326.el8 is being pushed to the mirrors now. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 2:42 PM Brian Stinson wrote: > >> >> Carl summarized really well how code moves through RHEL and CentO