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Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Karanbir Singh wrote:

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

As last time, I don't really see any content in the slides which needs
to be changed, as we've held those rather generic.
I need the final images on the 28th if they are going to make it into
anaconda this time.


I'm just going through an install and really do not see any need for
changes. And 28th is a tad, ermm, short, especially with the rate Gideon
can be gotten a hold of ...


Add {0,1,2}.centos.pool.ntp.org to the network time protocol
configuration and to the standard ntp.conf file - this still reads
{0,1,2}.rhel.pool.ntp.org at the moment, we have our own pool name since
a few weeks ago.

ok, I can do that now.


As far as I can see the only change needed is in ntp.conf from the ntp
package.


If I understand it correctly, then
/usr/share/system-config-date/dateBackend.py reads /etc/ntp.conf on
startup and processes "server" lines in there to offer you a choice of
ntp servers.

If we really want to make sure, we could also modify
/usr/share/system-config-date/ntp.template - but that would be doing
more than upstream does, as that only contains

server 0.pool.ntp.org


My dhcp server offers an ntp server; _that_ is the one I want used. It
seems weird to me that it isn't.



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John Summerfield wrote:
> My dhcp server offers an ntp server; _that_ is the one I want used. It
> seems weird to me that it isn't.

Nobody forbids you to use that. We are just changing the *default*
stuff for the time configuration utility and the *default* config for
ntpd.

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Ralph Angenendt wrote:

John Summerfield wrote:
My dhcp server offers an ntp server; _that_ is the one I want used. It
seems weird to me that it isn't.


Nobody forbids you to use that. We are just changing the *default*
stuff for the time configuration utility and the *default* config for
ntpd.



I think what he means is that if the dhcp server supplies the option for
ntp servers, they should be installed and used automatically more or
less like dns servers are - unless you have set an option to override
with a different setting.


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Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> I think what he means is that if the dhcp server supplies the option for
> ntp servers, they should be installed and used automatically more or
> less like dns servers are - unless you have set an option to override
> with a different setting.

I wasn't talking about any functionality changes here.

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Les Mikesell wrote:

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

John Summerfield wrote:
My dhcp server offers an ntp server; _that_ is the one I want used.
It seems weird to me that it isn't.


Nobody forbids you to use that. We are just changing the *default*
stuff for the time configuration utility and the *default* config for
ntpd.



I think what he means is that if the dhcp server supplies the option for
ntp servers, they should be installed and used automatically more or
less like dns servers are - unless you have set an option to override
with a different setting.


Exactly. At present, the offering is either ignored ... or I've made a
goose of myself again.


I don't feel like doing a manual install right now to see what goes on,
but I can't find a RH-ish system that isn't using the value offered by
my dhcp server. Even on C4.


I do think one shouldn't be asked about timezone info by Anaconda if the
DHCP server provides it, and I'm sure it still does, but that isn't what
I had in mind.


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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, John Summerfield
<debian@herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>>>
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My dhcp server offers an ntp server; _that_ is the one I want used. It
>>>> seems weird to me that it isn't.
>>>
>>> Nobody forbids you to use that. We are just changing the *default*
>>> stuff for the time configuration utility and the *default* config for
>>> ntpd.
>>>
>>
>> I think what he means is that if the dhcp server supplies the option for
>> ntp servers, they should be installed and used automatically more or less
>> like dns servers are - unless you have set an option to override with a
>> different setting.
>>
> Exactly. At present, the offering is either ignored ... or I've made a goose
> of myself again.
>

It shouldn't be ignored out of the box.. my system got an updated ntp
but I am not sure if I changed it later. I will have to do a reinstall
to make sure... but it looks like its not ignoring.

> I don't feel like doing a manual install right now to see what goes on, but
> I can't find a RH-ish system that isn't using the value offered by my dhcp
> server. Even on C4.
>

Thats weird. I need to check my boxes again.

> I do think one shouldn't be asked about timezone info by Anaconda if the
> DHCP server provides it, and I'm sure it still does, but that isn't what I
> had in mind.
>

Thats a bit more of a change.. I think it would need to be an upstream
change first.


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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Tim Verhoeven
<tim.verhoeven.be@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> - Provide a CentOS png to be displayed on the top of the cube (bug #2633)
>
> When using compiz make sure there is a CentOS logo on the 3D cube when
> changing desktops.

Just uploaded a centos logo image file that could be used to replace
the fedora file (see http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2633 ) . The
image is:

http://bugs.centos.org/file_download.php?file_id=487&type=bug

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On Fri, 23 May 2008, Tim Verhoeven wrote:


There are a couple of things mentioned during the release of 5.1 that
would be nice if they could be integrated into 5.2. These are (in
random order) :

- Update the content of the slides (and translate them)

I don't remember what exactly people would like to have changed or who
it was that mentioned it. But anyway, the time is now if we would like
the slides updated. So speak up :-)


I did. The slides would be the perfect opportunity to promote some things.

- Explain what CentOS is and how we relate to upstream
- Explain all the additional stuff the CentOS project is doing
- Explain that we have SIGs and how they can join them
- Explain where to get documentation
- Explain how people can help CentOS (contribute, pay C, buy RH)
- Explain what Enterprise Linux means and show the release cycle
- ...

Can we have a look at the current CentOS slides and see what we could
improve ?




- Add the updates repo (in the same list as the extra repo)

By default at the Updates repo to the Anaconda installer like it
currently is for the Extras repo. So people that have a internet
connection during install can have updated packages already installed.


When doing this on CentOS 5.1 in a kickstart file (repo directive) it
would fail because of the wrong package order. One of the first things
that needs to be installed is glibc (because of ldconfig) and coreutils
but it didn't go first and 100% packages simply failed to install.


I didn't debug this, maybe the updates repo needed some special tweaking ?


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Dag Wieers wrote:
> I did. The slides would be the perfect opportunity to promote some things.

Maybe a tad late now? Especially if we think about translations.

> - Explain what CentOS is and how we relate to upstream
> - Explain all the additional stuff the CentOS project is doing
> - Explain that we have SIGs and how they can join them
> - Explain where to get documentation
> - Explain how people can help CentOS (contribute, pay C, buy RH)
> - Explain what Enterprise Linux means and show the release cycle
> - ...

There's not really that much space on the slides to do some of the
things above.

> Can we have a look at the current CentOS slides and see what we could
> improve ?

http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Release/CentOS5.0AnacondaSlides

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Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Tim Verhoeven
> <tim.verhoeven.be@gmail.com> wrote:
>> - Provide a CentOS png to be displayed on the top of the cube (bug #2633)
>>
>> When using compiz make sure there is a CentOS logo on the 3D cube when
>> changing desktops.
>
> Just uploaded a centos logo image file that could be used to replace
> the fedora file (see http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2633 ) . The
> image is:
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/file_download.php?file_id=487&type=bug


Thanks,

I've just used the logo, and not the 'CentOS' bit, is that ok ?

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