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Friday, March 17th, 2017
| Time |
Event |
| 11:59a |
The end of the line for EPEL-5 The remaining users of RHEL 5 (and derivatives) will want to know that maintenance
of the EPEL-5 repository is coming to an end. " In the end,
EPEL-5 went live sometime in April of 2007 and over the next 10 years grew
to a repository of over 5000 source packages and 200,000 unique ip
addresses checking in per day at its peak of 240,000 in early 2013. While
every package built for EPEL is done with the RHEL packages, all of these
packages have been useful for the various community rebuilds (CentOS,
Scientific Linux, Amazon Linux) of RHEL. This meant that growth in those
eco-systems brought more users into using EPEL and helping on packaging as
later RHEL releases came out. However as these newer releases and rebuilds
grew in usage, the number of EPEL-5 users has gradually fallen to around
160,000 unique ip addresses per day. Also over that time, the number of
packages supported by developers has fallen and the repository has shrunk
in size to 2000 source packages." | | 3:12p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (linux-zen), Debian (calibre, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, wireshark, and wordpress), Fedora (icoutils and tcpreplay), Mageia (wavpack), openSUSE (dracut and qemu), and SUSE (firefox and xen). | | 5:38p |
Gregg: perf sched for Linux CPU scheduler analysis Brendan Gregg shows
how to do scheduler profiling with the perf sched command.
" perf sched timehist was added in Linux 4.10, and shows the scheduler
latency by event, including the time the task was waiting to be woken up
(wait time) and the scheduler latency after wakeup to running (sch
delay). It's the scheduler latency that we're more interested in
tuning." | | 6:27p |
Ubuntu: A follow-up on 32-bit powerpc architecture
Ubuntu has discontinued support for the 32-bit powerpc architecture in
Zesty Zappus (17.04).
"We are well into Feature Freeze at this point, so an update is overdue. As
of Feature Freeze in February, the status is that powerpc packages are no
longer considered for proposed-migration, and we have discontinued all CD
image builds for powerpc in zesty.
For the moment, uploads continue to be built for powerpc in Launchpad, and
packages are still published in the archive. You should expect both to be
discontinued before the 17.04 release." |
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