Игорь Олемской — практические заметки по системному администрированию Linux CentOS

Number of 10 millions of download RPM, from remi repository, have just been jumped (7 millions for EL-5 only).
Thanks for your fidelity... Lire 10 millions

Have you noticed the new English FAQ page, on the right menu ?

I will update it, as new questions will raise that I will find interesting or recurrent enough.
Don't hesitate to use this entry comment to post your feedback / corrections (especially for English translation), there is so much things I have probably forgot, perhaps because they seems too trivial...... Lire New FAQ

The old server hosting my web sites (a Dedibox V1) was quite old now. It just have been replaced by a more recent one (a Dedibox Classic).

Old server :
CPU : VIA Esther processor 2000MHz
Memory : 1Gio
Disk : 160 Gio
System : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) — 32bits
Network : IPv4

New server :
CPU :Intel^® Core^™2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 3Gio
Disk : 500Gio / Raid 1
System : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) — 64bits... Lire New Server

From now, the access to remi repository change.
For active fedora versions (13 et 14), and enterprise linux (6), the repository is still available freely 
but with a 14 days delay after the users which have the benefit of a Premium access.
For older versions, the repository is closed.
Premium users keep an immediate access (no delay) to the... Lire Premium Acces

Reading the download statistics for this old versions, and comparing with the time required to maintain (and build) packages, I have choose to close this 2 older repositories...
Remi for Fedora Core 6
Remi for Fedora 7

Or course, packages will still available, but there will not have new update (with some exceptions for some fc6.i386 packages)... Lire FC-6 and F-7 repositories are closed

MySQL Worbench, the modeling, development and administration graphical tool for MySQL databases is now available as 5.2.24 (Release Candidate 3). RPM for Fedora ≥ 10 are available in remi repository.

Read the Releases Page for changes history, or Changes in MySQL Workbench 5.2.24.
The download site only provide RPM for Fedora 12 i386 and x86_64. My repository provides RPM for Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64. Previous Fedora versions and don't have needed dependencies, such as cairo >= 1.8.0.
As always :
yum... Lire mysql-worbench-5.2.24

The pages which provides a quick search in the Packages in Fedora repository, and specially the list of pecl, pear or R package (with upstream information) have, thanks to my friend Trashy, a new theme (great thanks).

When I first create this pages, the theme from the Documentation fedora was used. For a few days, with the new theme, this pages have lost their.
Now, the problem is solved, and the new theme, really cool, locally hosted shouldn't disappear again.
For those who want to read the sources, it's avaiable. (as always, feedback, comment, request for... Lire New theme for "Packages in Fedora"

I have upgraded the auto-configuration package for the remi repository.

This new version use the mirrorlist directive to retrieve the online mirror's list (available according to the version). I recommend to upgrade this package, if you have edited the remi.repo (enabled=1 for example), you should copy the new version (remi.repo.rpmnew) and apply your change again...
The new mirror : http://remi-mirror.dedipower.com/... Lire remi-release and new mirror