The CentOS Project is now providing a signed copy of the repodata metadata file (repomd.xml.asc) for our Updates Repository for both CentOS-6 and CentOS-7. To use this feature, you would edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/ CentOS-Base.repo and locate the [updates] section, the default looks like this: #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 […]
Today the CentOS-Project announced the immediate availability of CentOS-7 (1503), the second release of CentOS-7. Find out more about the release announcement here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-March/021006.html. Also don't forget to read the release notes at the wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.
Waiting for the new package set in the next CentOS-7 release ? A majority of them are now available on every CentOS-7 machine by running the following commands : yum update yum --enablerepo=cr list updates Its important you run a 'yum update' first, since the cr repo definitions are only available in the newer centos-release […]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 was released a few days back, You can go read the release notes now. Its a great way to find out the big changes and enhancements in this release. On the CentOS side of things, we have been working through last week on getting the sources organised and the builds […]
As I'd mentioned previously, the fine folks of Applied Micro were kind enough to give us an X-C1 development box to see if it was feasible to build and run CentOS Linux 7. My first attempt through, I realized I hadn't been taking decent notes, so I scrapped most of the package work and started […]
ARMv7 With the growing list of easily accessible ARM hardware like the RaspBerry Pi 2 and the ODROID-C1, several community efforts have sprouted, working out the details for getting CentOS-7 built and available for the new boards. One of our UK based community members has made the most progress so far, posting his build process […]
The FreeIPA community is looking for your help and feedback! The FreeIPA development team is excited to share with you a new version of the FreeIPA server 4.1.2 running in a container on top of CentOS. It is the first time a FreeIPA upstream release is available in the CentOS docker index. It is a […]
The CentOS Project is pleased to announce four new Docker images in the CentOS Container Set, providing popular, ready to use containerized applications and services. Today you can grab containers with MariaDB, Nginx, FreeIPA, and the Apache HTTP Server straight from the Docker Hub. The new containers are based on CentOS 7, and are tailored […]
The CentOS Project will be having a CentOS Dojo on day0 of Fossetcon 2014, in Orlando Florida at the Rosen Plaza Hotel on September, 11th 2014. We will have speakers in the morning, starting at 10:00 am local time and a hackfest beginning at 1:00pm. Please see the CentOS Wiki for details. Register here.
EDIT (Monday July 28, 2014 - 2010 UTC): We now have what we think is going to be the final version of this upgrade tool. Please see the following link to test: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool End Edit ================ We now have some Beta Testing RPMs available to test upgrades from CentOS-6 to CentOS-7. These tests were announced […]