I often hit problems cloning git repos from github, and end up googling the answer.
This is the solution I use most often. Thanks Eric!
Posts tagged ‘centos’
I had a utility server running RHEL 6.2 (I installed it as part of a RHEV evaluation process). However, I have no RHEL entitlements so am not able to get updates.
So, I converted it to CentOS 6.2, with a little help from this post:
yum clean all mkdir ~/centos cd ~/centos wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-6-2.el6.centos.7.x86_64.rpm wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-3.2.29-22.el6.centos.noarch.rpm wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-utils-1.1.30-10.el6.noarch.rpm wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-10.el6.noarch.rpm rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-server rpm -e yum-rhn-plugin rhn-check rhnsd rhn-setup rpm -Uhv --force *.rpm yum upgrade reboot
Nice!
Most of the servers I manage are 64-bit. I have one linode box that is 32-bit. I chose 32-bit because it has better memory usage than 64-bit, which is possibly important with a 512MB instance. This was probably a mistake as the management overhead involved with maintaining a 32-bit infrastructure for just one 32-bit machine is silly. No matter – we are where we are…!
I use the fnv_64 user-defined function from maatkit with MySQL. So, I need to build a 32-bit version for use on the 32-bit server.
Here's how to use mock to create a 32-bit build environment (in this case, for CentOS 5) on a 64-bit machine (the host is actually a Fedora 15 server).
Continue reading ‘Using mock to build 32-bit shared libraries on 64-bit platform’ »
I wanted to install a Fedora 13 machine as a paravirtual domu guest on our CentOS 5.5, xen 3.4.2 host. I also wanted to provision it using koan/cobbler. I ran into a few problems along the way, but I got there in the end!
Continue reading ‘Fedora 13 as a domu guest with xen 3.4.2 on CentOS 5.5’ »
Dell distributes its OMSA software in RPM packages and even has a yum repo available so you'd think that updating to the next version would be as simple as yum update, right? Wrong!
You have to remove the old version first, and then install the new version. Oh, and you also need to stop the Dell services, restart ipmi, then restart the Dell services.
Something like this:
yum -y remove srvadmin-* \ && rm -Rf /opt/dell \ && yum -y install srvadmin-all dell_ft_install \ && srvadmin-services.sh stop \ && service ipmi restart \ && srvadmin-services.sh start
It seems that several people have been having problems getting Dell OMSA 6.2 to work correctly on CentOS 5.4 x86_64. Specifically, the software does not detect any storage controllers, and therefore also doesn't find any disks. eg.
[root@b034 ~]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 Invalid controller value. Read, controller=0 No controllers found.
After a little investigation, I found the source of the problem.
Continue reading ‘Dell OMSA on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 – No Controllers found error’ »
As I mentioned in a previous post, the MySQL RPMs provided for RHEL/CentOS by percona are not actually compatible with RHEL/CentOS. They use the same package layout as the MySQL-provided RPMs.
Here's how I create my own RPMs having the same package layout as the RHEL/CentOS packages but with the percona highperf patchset applied.
Continue reading ‘RHEL/CentOS-compatible MySQL RPMs with percona highperf patchset’ »
ourdelta provide MySQL packages for various platforms, built with assorted performance/feature patchsets.
Sadly, like the percona builds, the RPM packages for RHEL/CentOS are not upstream-compatible, ie. they package MySQL differently.
I was planning to re-build the ourdelta packages to use the upstream RPM package layout but I've decided to stick with re-building the percona packages as I've already done the work for that.
Anyway, in case it helps someone, here's how to rebuild the ourdelta packages from the SRPM:
rpmbuild --rebuild \
MySQL-OurDelta-5.0.87.d10-65.el5.src.rpm \
--define 'ourdelta 1' \
--define 'mysqlversion 5.0.87' \
--define 'elversion 5' \
--define 'patchset d10'
