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Kernel Rebuild on Alma 9.4 for PXE Install on XEN domU PVH
by michael theurl 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Hello List, i am working to enable the XEN PVH Feature on the stock Alma Linux 9.4 kernel for the PXE Boot image set. I was able to rebuild the kernel with rpm -ivh kernel-5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.src.rpm modified the kernel-x86_64-rhel.config from SOURCES <SNIP> CONFIG_XEN_PVH=y # CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 is not set <SNAP> rpmbuild -bb --target=x86_64 kernel.spec and after some time i got the needed rpms. To extract the parts who iam looking for. It does now boot proper as a XEN PVH domU but then the dracut exits because he can not load the kernel modules. So the stock kernel modules from initrd.img from the pxe boot will give me an error: BPF can not load modules and dracut exits. It Seem they are all signed (I am from the time who used Centos 5/6 for a lot of time and did back in time all the compiling and just copy the files in place pretty straight forward, seems things has changed a lot). If i extract the pxe initrd.img file and replace there the kernel modules to the newly compiled it works again. Everything was looking pretty good so far. But... And after i run successfully through the anaconda installer and the installers starts the tasks. Suddenly the installer crashes. it is after The mounting of the filesystem would begin. it fails because the install.img has the old set of kernel modules and the installer exits. He tried to load the xfs kernel module. So again lets change the kernel module but after the change the install.img seems broken. Dracut tells me the rootfs.img is missing. But it is there. Then i gave up and was thinking there must be an other way. I did an unsquashfs install.img mount -o loop rootfs.img /PATH copied the kernel modules unmount /PATH mksquashfs /PATH install.img Is this the only way to make this change happen ? Or is there a much easier way that i could recompile the kernel and still can use all the existing kernel modules ? So that i do not search and replace them in all the files ? If someone could give me some hints that would be amazing. many thanks cheers Michael

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Security Patches
by dervish13＠tilda.center 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Greetings, Is there a guide on how to publish security patches for packages? Or example of working code I can learn from is also useful. I have rpm repo using createrepo, and tried updating the security info with modifyrepo and updateinfo.xml but dnf --refresh update --security never picks it up. Thanks, Dervish

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Maintenance of hpsa and qla2xxx
by Rainer Jung 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hi there, Thanks for your great work on Alma. I saw that Alma patched away the deprecation resp. unmaintained warnings for hpsa and qla2xxx (and others) for the forthcoming 8.10 and 9.4 as a result of the recent Hackathon in Rust. I wonder what it means in terms of ongoing maintenance for those drivers. Are they still maintained upstreams and will Alma pick up upstream changes even if RHEL drops them? Otherwise simply patching away the warnings might be misleading. Thanks and regards, Rainer

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[PATCH] AlmaLinux 8: cronie 1.5.2-1.5.4 100% CPU usage bug
by Alexander Gerasimov 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi All, We areusing AlmaLinux 8 docker image for docker-compose and one of the services is cron (using cronie). We faced 100% CPU load issue. The problem is described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1723106 I see there is a patch (fixed in 1.5.5). Patch: https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/commit/584911514ce6aa2f16e1d79431bac… Also we found that cronie 1.5.2-10 is used in CentOS 8 Stream, probably with similar patch (didn't found the way to get src rpm), but still 1.5.2-8 in AlmaLinux. Thus, I backported the patch and ask to include it or fix using Centos stream one. Fixed src rpm: https://repo.codeit.guru/packages/unsigned/cronie-1.5.2-9.codeit.el8.src.rpm (see patch10 in spec). Can you review this or point me where to send it? Thanks. Best regards, Alexander Gerasimov Chief Technical Officer CodeIT

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Rebuilding the Almalinux leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-rpms
by Darrious 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

I would like to fork the almalinux/leapp-repositories repo, make some tweaks, rebuild the RPMs, and install them along side the leapp dependencies in the Almalinux elevate repo at http://repo.almalinux.org/elevate/elevate-release-latest-el7.noarch.rpm I understand how to rebuild the RPM. The problem I am running into is related to versioning. The yum repository I mentioned says that the leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-* rpm major versions are 0.16.0. I noticed also that there are a few of these RPMs in there with build numbers appended to the end (see attached image). The almalinux/leapp-repositories git repository does contain a v0.16.0 tag but that tag is on a commit from over a year ago and I see that the v.0.16.0 RPMs in the yum repository are receiving regular updates with these build numbers (one was uploaded this week). The RPM produced from the v0.16.0 tag locally does not work with the other dependencies in the yum repo although I am able to get it to work when I rebuild all of the leapp RPMs (which I want to avoid). I would like to understand how to build the newer v0.16.0 RPM with the updated build numbers present in the yum repos. I don't see any tagging or branches in the github repositories for these [image: image.png]

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Zenbleed Patches Available for Testing
by Jonathan Wright 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

We are happy to announce that Zenbleed patches are available now for testing. You can apply the fix as follows: AlmaLinux 8: dnf update https://build.almalinux.org/pulp/content/builds/AlmaLinux-8-x86_64-7032-br/… AlmaLinux 9: dnf update https://build.almalinux.org/pulp/content/builds/AlmaLinux-9-x86_64-7033-br/… AlmaLinux 8/9: echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload For full details please see our blog post at https://almalinux.org/blog/zenbleed-patch-call-for-testing/ The updates are expected to hit the production repos in the coming days. -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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almalinux没有SUPPORT_END
by 蓝天白云 19 May '23

19 May '23

您好！ almalinux没有SUPPORT_END 谢谢！蓝天白云 592453120(a)qq.com  

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为什么有的rpm文件的权限是-r-xr-xr-x，有的是-r--r--r
by 592453120＠qq.com 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

为什么almalinux9光盘中，有的rpm文件的权限是-r-xr-xr-x，有的是-r--r--r。我看了rhel9的rpm文件全部是-r--r--r.

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git.almalinux.org Planned Outage
by Jonathan Wright 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Tomorrow we have a planned outage on git.almalinux.org at 12PM EST / 5PM UTC for Gitea upgrades. The maintenance is anticipated to take less than an hour. -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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Fwd: [orca] AlmaLinux 9.1 released
by Luna Jernberg 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(a)panix.com> Date: Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 7:15 AM Subject: [orca] AlmaLinux 9.1 released To: <orca(a)freelists.org> For us screen reader users, you want the dvd images since these are the only ones with the accessibility stack immediately available. This after a bittorrent download turned out to be quick research since .manifest files for all three flavors of almalinux came as a result of the bittorrent download. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . _______________________________________________ orca mailing list orca(a)freelists.org https://www.freelists.org/list/orca Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html

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