Varnish Cache 4.0 Release Parties on April 29th, 2014

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:51 AM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> | On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:26 AM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>
> | wrote:
> | > ________________________________
> | >
> | > Hello everyone,
> | >
> | > Every few years we have a major Varnish Cache release and that
> | > needs to be
> | > celebrated properly. So let's again gather locally to learn about
> | > the
> | > goodness the 4.0.0 release brings in the good company of fellow
> | > Varnishers.
> | >
> | > As the release is now imminent we have set the date to April 29th,
> | > 2014 for
> | > the Varnish 4.0 Release Parties. Our site is now up and you can
> | > organize or
> | > join a party already now:
> | >
> | > * Party Site with Map and General info >
> | > http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/
> | > * Your own party + party pack? >
> | > http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/help-us
> | >
> | > As usual, make sure to tag your blogs, tweets, pictures and videos
> | > with the
> | > #vr4p hashtag so that we can all be part of the fun both during and
> | > after
> | > the parties.
> | >
> | > If you are busy on work rotation that day or have no party nearby,
> | > no
> | > worries, you can join us online on the Varnish Cache 4.0 Release
> | > Party -
> | > Live Stream (Hangout on Air) from Copenhagen, Oslo and London. You
> | > can RSVP
> | > already now >
> | > https://plus.google.com/events/cvuqnm8cof58paogkc2uj0giru0
> | >
> | > If you have any questions related to the Release party (i.e. want
> | > to set up
> | > your own party and don't know where to start or want to broadcast
> | > from your
> | > local party) feel free to reply to this email or reach out to me on
> | > Skype,
> | > Twitter or IRC and I will do what i can to give you a hand.
> | >
> | > Hope you all can join us!
> | >
> | > In behalf of the Varnish Cache team,
> | >
> | >
> | > It would seem that Varnish 4 RHEL 6 repos have a requirement for
> | > jemalloc,
> | > however there are no instructions of where to get it and it is not
> | > provided
> | > as part of the repository.  Is it an error that it is not listed as
> | > a
> | > dependancy to the RHEL/CentOS 6 build requirements or is the RPM
> | > wrong?
> |
> | Hi James,
> |
> | jemalloc is availlable through the EPEL repo for RHEL and its
> | rebuilds
> | like CentOS.
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Dridi
>
> Yes, that I understand, more the documentation for compilation and for installation of the RPM do not state that EPEL is a requirement for Varnish 4.
>
> https://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/redhat
>
> Does not include Varnish 4 documentation (yet), but is linked to from Varnish 4 document
>
> https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.0/installation/install.html#red-hat-centos
>
> nor is it listed as a dependancy for compiling.  I assume this is a "bug" and I'm reporting it.

Good catch,

If my memory serves well Varnish used to embed its own copy of
jemalloc, someone forgot to update the documentation. It still
mentions el5 too which is not supported for Varnish 4.

Dridi

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