This repository is for items that actually upgrade certain base CentOS componets. This repo will change CentOS to not be exactly like the upstream providers content.
The CentOS developement team has tested every item in this repo, and they build and work under CentOS-4. They have not been tested by the upstream provider, and are not available in the upstream products.
You should understand that use of these components removes the 100% binary compatibility with the upstream products. That said, here is what is available in this repo.
In the below descriptions, the exact versioning has been replaced with x’s … as this is generic information. See the actual RPM directories in the ARCH that you are interested in for the latest version of each of the packages for that specific ARCH.
Every effort will be made to keep these files updated, BUT the main CentOS distro will be updated first, and these files will be updated after the main distro updates have been completed and pushed. This should not cause a considerable delay, and normally updates should be completed on the same day as in the main distro. You might want to exclude any packages from the [base] and [updates] section of your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file like this:
exclude=php* kernel* postfix*
If you do that to the [updates] and [base] section for packages you install from the CentOS Plus repo, you won’t accidentally get updates from the main tree.
————————- php-5.x.x-x.centos4 ————————- This is php-5 for CentOS-4. It replaces the php-4.3.9 that is currently in CentOS-4. In order to upgrade a current php-4 install, you must remove php-domxml first and then do:
————————————- postfix-2.x.x-x.x.RHEL4.mysql.centos4 ————————————- This is Postfix compiled with mysql support so that you can use a MySQL database for both usernames and to hold mail. If you need mysql support for your postfix mail server, you can upgrade a currently installed version like this:
yum –enablerepo=centosplus upgrade postfix*
or do an install like this:
yum –enablerepo=centosplus install postfix*
———————————- kernel-2.6.x-x.x.x.xxx.plus.c4 ———————————- This is a kernel that has many of the options and modules turned on which are turned off by default in the upstream providers kernels. A list of some of the items that this Kernel includes are:
File Systems: NTFS (read and write) XFS (read and write) JFS (read and write) ReiserFS (read and write) UFS {BSD default FS} (read only) BeOS FS (read only) AFS (read only)
Hardware Modules: All USB All Firewire All SCSI Video4 Linux and all Video, Audio and Radio modules
IPX, DECNET, netware file mount support, ability to write to a Windows Dynamic Partition. There are other items as well. See this link for the actual config files used to build the latest unsupported kernel:
Note: Starting with kernel-2.6.9-42.x.x.plus.c4, xfs-kernel-modules is provided for the centosplus kernels and the standard centos kernels. These modules are newer XFS code from SGI than the standard 2.6.9 modules included in the CentOS kernel. ——————— File System Utilities ——————— Because of the added file system support for the above kernel, we have also added tools to create XFS, JFS and ReiserFS partitions and make file systems on those partitions. Here are the packages for each FS:
