Fedora

Local RPMs update

May 9th, 2012
by robin.
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This is an update to the earlier post where I linked to some RPMs which I maintain for my own purposes. If you find these useful, please feel free to download them.

In the filenames, el6 is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Centos), el5 is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Centos), fc7 is Fedora Core 7.

If a link is broken, feel free to have a click around the SVN repository, the root of where I keep all the RPM stuff is here. Or please email me.

Some RPMS

Feb 28th, 2011
by robin.
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There is an update to this post, for the most recent be sure to check here.

I notice that occasionally the RPMs I mentioned in this post do indeed get downloaded. I’ve been adding the odd package as and when I need it and I haven’t been able to find a RPM. Also I’ve built some of those original RPMS for new distributions or architectures (x86_64 typically), so I thought maybe I ought to write an updated post.

In the filenames, el5 is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Centos), fc7 is Fedora Core 7 and if the letters are missing it will work with rl5!

If a link is broken, feel free to have a click around the SVN repository, the root of where I keep all the RPM stuff is here. Or please email me.

daemontools

  • daemontools-0.76-1.el5.i386.rpm
  • daemontools-debuginfo-0.76-1.fc7.i386.rpm
  • daemontools-0.76-1.fc7.i386.rpm
  • daemontools-0.76-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • daemontools-0.76-1.el5.src.rpm

    • djbdns

    haproxy

    isync

    keepalived

    netatalk

    ucspi-tcp

    wakeonlan

    mdadm Linux software Raid raidhotadd

    Jul 17th, 2010
    by robin.
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    I’m sure there used to be a thing called raidhotadd, anyway these days it seems to be mdadm. We have a few machines with software raid, and very occasionally a md device flags a disk as dead but adding it back into the array fixes the problem.

    Anyway, I never remember this, so to remove and then re-add a disk from a md device do the following:


    [root@host ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
    Personalities : [raid1]
    md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
    104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

    md0 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[2](F)
    143371968 blocks [2/1] [U_]

    md2 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
    71577536 blocks [2/2] [UU]

    unused devices:
    [root@host ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdd

    Disk /dev/sdd: 146.8 GB, 146815737856 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17849 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdd1 * 1 17849 143372061 fd Linux raid autodetect
    [root@host ~]# mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdd1
    mdadm: hot removed /dev/sdd1
    [root@host ~]# mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1
    mdadm: re-added /dev/sdd1
    [root@host ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
    Personalities : [raid1]
    md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
    104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

    md0 : active raid1 sdd1[2] sdc1[0]
    143371968 blocks [2/1] [U_]
    [>....................] recovery = 0.2% (297280/143371968) finish=32.0min speed=74320K/sec

    md2 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
    71577536 blocks [2/2] [UU]

    unused devices:
    [root@host ~]#

    And there we can see from /proc/mdstat that the md device will be synchronised and happy again soon.

    djbdns, daemontools and ucspi-tcp RPMS

    Aug 18th, 2008
    by robin.
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    There is an update to this post, for the most recent be sure to check here.

    Every so often I need a copy of one or all of these on a new machine. I tend to normally use RPM based distros and always have issues trying to find RPMS of these packages. As a result I’ve packaged them up and put them in my svn repo.

    Feel free to checkout that directory, it includes a readme of how to build them for a system I’ve yet to need them on. replace the fc7 or el5 with something appropriate for your distribution.

    Direct download links:

    Redhat/Centos 5:

    Fedora 7:

    Update: This post still links to a few RPMs, but I have an updated post here, which has far more.

    VMware any-any patch

    Aug 26th, 2007
    by robin.
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    I’ve had troubles with vmware on redhat/fedora in the past. (See here or here) But I’ve now found a one stop solution to putting VMware on all things RedHat or Fedora. Follow the instructions in this VMware forum post. This has worked for me with VMware Server on Fedora 6 and 7 and also VMware Workstation 6 on Fedora 7. Thanks Petr!

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