CentOS

Can the CentOS version of the Red Hat Developer Toolset ( devtoolset or devtools ) be used to build both 32-bit and 64-bit applications under 64-bit CentOS 6.4? I installed the 64-bit devtools using the folllowing steps. How can I do the same for i686 devtools and install under 64-bit CentOS 6.4 and...

1 - Is there a source of newer GNU gcc and g++ RPMs compatible with Centos 5.6? Fedora Core? 2 - Perhaps a more important questions is, for developing software for CentOs 5.x customers, should I stick with the gcc it came with? Or at least build the release with same gcc as target? I encountered the...

Hi Alan,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I still have much to learn about building rpms and wanted to make sure I was not on the wrong path.

Thanks again,

-Ed

I created an rpm to install software for use by any user. Following the application examples of Mozilla Firefox and Wireshark and installed my binaries to: /usr/bin/myappexecutable /usr/lib/myapp/ /usr/share/myapp/readonlyconfigfile.xml /usr/share/applications/myapp.desktop Is this ok? Or is /usr/lo...

Thank you! Perfect!

/sbin/service iptables status
Firewall is stopped.

-Ed

Is there some way I can pro-grammatically check if the firewall is enabled? An API or some configuration file I can grep as a normal user? I have a C++ application that streams multi-cast video. I want to display a dialog to the user if the firewall is enabled (or if a specific port is not open ) th...

[quote] lostson wrote: There are many ways to package things up It has been pointed out to me several times to use this site https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines as a starting point. You may also want to check these ones out as well http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironme...

Thanks in advance for any rpm sepc file examples you can share. Background ------------- I have a mylib-devel.rpm that installs headers (to /usr/include/) and html docs to /usr/share/doc/mylib/html. I am trying to figure out how to add program shortcuts to Appplication->Programming menu as well as a...

Thank you very much for the pre-install script idea and example.

For my Linux skill level, I may just end up making one kickstart file for IDE and another for SDA or include notes on how to select the required hard drive interface for the VM before running the kickstart.

Thanks again,

-Ed

Can an unattended Kickstart support both IDE (hda) and SCSI (sda)? The goal is to to create a new virtual machine from scratch. What I have works for Parallels in which a new VM defaults to emulate an IDE hard disk. It does not work for VMware Workstation which defaults to emulate a SCSI disk. The r...