Poor Yum Repo: OracleLinux6

I’m now working on an Oracle Linux 6U1 x64 box, planning to inst new 11R2 image.

Problem hit here.

we can see that glibc.i686 <tip: just add arch. tag to install related pkg.> cannot be resolved  for glibc-common label check failure.

it’s funny but not worse, ORCL even doesn’t provide glibc-common.i686 package…
http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/1/base/x86_64/

It should be a bug here….

WorkAround:

1. pull glibc package from weburl glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686.rpm.
2. # yum localinstall glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686.rpm
3. # yum install unixODBC-devel unixODBC-devel.i686
4. continue…

Notes….
Poor Yum repo…especially on x64 platform day’s, mixing with i686 libs.

Emerald package has retired

It’s so long time to issue yum-update on my F15 boxes.
found the emerald packages already removed from repo…

[Following links tell everything:]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739617
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1516387
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=emerald.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master

[Workaround to continue running Emerald:]
just go back to 0.9.4~
1.  Download essential packages:
[x86_64]

[i386]

2. Remove current 0.9.5.0 compiz related packages.

3. install the RPMs downloaded above.

4. edit the /etc/yum.conf to block compiz/emerald related updates.

Well now I’ve blocked updates on compiz and libreoffice… is there any more?

VMSetError: VirtualBox can’t operate in VMX root mode.

VirtualBox failed to start VM guest on OEL5 node,

To Workaround:

chmsee doesnt work on Fedora 15 official

just found that the chmsee tool doesnt work well today. it should worked at the release version and failed when yum up2date.
check and filed a bug on this issue.


W/R
export GRE_HOME env before run the tool,

compile rose-0.9.5a-14791 on Fedora 15

rose is a nice tool, suggested when reading the book <The CERT C Secure Coding Standard>

just install the tool on my Fedora 15 node,

1. Fetch the latest source code from official website: 0.9.5a-multiplatform-14791
2. Prepare the packages needed,(I use official Java Bins configured, which can be detected by configure script)

3. modify the configure script incase a boost version detect failure.

**About the path , I use following line to determine, it may also works on RH related platform.

4. configure with setting, for currently fedora.15 using gcc-4.6.0.

If you do only need some(not all) languages supported, using

5. make and continue.
Before make do modify the Makefile,  or the script shall not fetch the related EDG binaries for version4.6.