Developers' Blogs: VMiklos
Archives for: December 2005
Fri, 30 Dec 2005
01:52:45 am, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos syncpkg is a small script to sync packages on an given arch. an example: you're on x86_64 and you have foo-1.0 while there is already foo-2.0 in darcs, then it'll find this package, build it and if the build was successfull, i'll upload the package
the only parameter it requires is the max pkgs you want to build (if that number is too high then it may start to build pkgs others already built)
$ tail -f build.log
Fri Dec 30 00:21:56 CET 2005
number of pkgs to build: 99
Fri Dec 30 00:21:56 CET 2005
making package: foomatic-filters-ppds
Fri Dec 30 00:22:13 CET 2005
finished making package foomatic-filters-ppds with exit code 0
Fri Dec 30 00:22:13 CET 2005
making package: db
Fri Dec 30 00:27:18 CET 2005
finished making package db with exit code 0
Fri Dec 30 00:29:24 CET 2005
build finished, pkgs built: 2
Mon, 26 Dec 2005
02:24:01 am, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos Fri, 23 Dec 2005
02:22:07 am, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos i started to add package splitting support to pacman today. pacman3/libalpm is not affected, basically makepkg, updatesync and gensync have to me modified. the makepkg part is now ready. here is a sample FrugalBuild:
pkgname=cabextract
pkgver=1.1
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files"
url="http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php"
depends=('basedep1' 'basedep2')
groups=('apps')
archs=('i686' 'x86_64')
up2date="lynx -dump http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php |grep 'cabextract source code'|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f 6"
source=(http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/downloads/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
sha1sums=('359c8f4ec9c62d9dac5d572269b607b2cae4fbf7')
subpkgs=('cabextract-man' 'cabextract-bin')
subdescs=('manpage for cabextract' 'cabextract binaries')
subdepends=('man foo' 'glibc bar')
subreplaces=('' 'replacebin1 replacebin2')
build()
{
Fbuild
Fsplit $pkgname-man usr/man
Fsplit $pkgname-bin usr/bin
}
to build this you'll need pacman-tools from darcs and pacman from darcs, too
Mon, 12 Dec 2005
12:12:21 am, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos krix and me are working on porting our changes to pacman3. if you're interesed, check out the darcs repo. warning, this is not a working version, it's heavily under development!
Wed, 07 Dec 2005
08:59:13 pm, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos it seems that finally we figured out what causes the following weird problem on some mirrors:
io timeout after 300 seconds -- exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(181)
reading again man 5 rsyncd.conf:
timeout (...) A good choice for anonymous rsync daemons may be 600 (giving a 10 minute timeout).
and yes, adding "timeout = 600" to the relevant module solved the problems :)
05:28:56 pm, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos blah, what a spam...
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:09:54 +0100
From: security@frugalware.org
To: vmiklos@frugalware.org
Subject: gwxhqn
Dear Valued Member,
According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by
the following link, or your account will be
suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
http://www.vmiklos@frugalware.org/confirm.php?account=frugalware.org
After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be inte
rrupted and will continue as normal.
Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenienc
e.
Sincerely, Frugalware Security Department
Mon, 05 Dec 2005
05:01:21 pm, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos during the meantime (you can't always hack the setup 
) i've figured out how to package firefox extensions. you know why this is usefull: when you have a pc with a big number of users, or where you have a lot of machine. so test packages for adblock and google pagerank status are available
i plan to package sessionsaver and webdeveloper, too
if you have other ideas then post the name and the url of the extension you wish!
(this article served as a base to figure out how this all works)
update: webdeveloper is also available
update2: it seems that session saver and weatherfox does not support system-wide installations...
update3: flashblock and user agent switcher pushed
Sun, 04 Dec 2005
12:52:50 pm, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos new -current iso images are available, including kde-3.5 and firefox-1.5
Fri, 02 Dec 2005
12:50:02 am, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos i always forgot how to grant full access to a db for a normal user in mysql and have to rtfm from time to time. so i post here the magic command, hopefully it'll be a bit easier to search in the blog archive than rtfm'ing
GRANT ALL privileges on dbname.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret';
Thu, 01 Dec 2005
10:10:34 pm, Categories: packages, Posted by: vmiklos just found an interesting offline theme installer for firefox. dunno if it works with firefox-1.5...
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- Back to life again
As most of the devels know, i'm back again. But i have no own packages, i maintain slin's packages till he has not enough time to do it. And i maintain the x86_64 buildserver (called helicon) again.
Another thing: i created a testing bts, where you can test the changes of Flyspray before applying to the "stable" BTS. The current version is a development version of 0.9.9, but the final 1.0.0 is coming very soon, so i don't want to upgrade now, i'd like to wait for the final release. So please test the current version of the test site and tell me here, in comment or in email to iron (a) ironiq dot hu.
One another thing: there will be another i686 buildserver available. Now i'm waiting for the M/B and a HDD, other things are here, so if the last part will be arrived, i can install it and can go to its location. Maybe the whole procedure will end in 2-3 weeks.
- BTS
Hi all...
Today our BTS is already up and working (have to test). The base problem was, that 2 of our disks gone wrong due overheating (the refrigeation of the room gone wrong). Fortunately there wasn't significant data loss. The disks were replaced with new ones, and a new hd controller card replaced the one on the motherboard. And this caused the second fault: something was wrong with card (or the driver), but caused nice failures. I had to reinstall the sys and put back to the integrated controller to get work the disks properly. Now we are working on the cleaning of the sys and re-syncing the raid arrays.
Sorry for the long failure.
- BTS upgrade - last procedure
Due noone send me bugreport about the new testing BTS, i decided to upgrade the main BTS (http://bugs.frugalware.org). The upgrade will start on Monday (17th July) and will last approx. 2-3 days (i hope so). During this time the BTS will NOT be available, because i have to clean the database and upgrade it.
Please be patient during this time.
- BTS upgrade - not far from the end
Well, maybe some of you have seen the test BTS. Now it's upgraded to the devel version. I also added a small feature into it (and accepted by the author, so that will be available soon in svn). So maybe it will be available soon on the main site.
- BTS upgrade end
Today i did the upgrade. There was a small database cleanup (fortunately this was more simplier now then the testing was) before the upgrade. That's why the upgrade was faster then i thought. After this i copied the files from the testing BTS and the main things were ok. After small changes the site got its current status. So, the new BTS is ready to work.
- Bugs downtime
Well, maybe you noticed, that bugs.frugalware.org is down. On weekend i wasn't at home, so i noticed the error only on sunday evening. The host was up again at 9pm, so i hoped that this was the last error. After this, slin and i was seeking for a better datacenter. We found a better one and wanted to start the procedure (TTL change in DNS, waiting for spreading, hosting change, dns change and so on) today, but i noticed that the host is down again. So we speed up the procedure and maybe today or tomorrow the machine will be available by IP and will be available by hostname at the end of this week.
Sorry for the long timeout again...
- bugs is down
As some people noticed, bugs.frugalware.org is down (and also mail.frugalware.org is affected). Yesterday we noticed some heating problem, but had no time to examine the machine. Before rebooting the operator said that the fan is not working. But unfortunately i had absolutely no time to solve this problem. Maybe yesterday.
- bugs up
Yes, it's up and working again. The downtime was a bit longer then i thought, but now the heating is quiet good: 2pcs of 8cm fan and a 12cm fan works now as heating. The HDDs' temperatures are below 40 Celsius (about 104 Fahrenheit). The raid1 arrays were OK after reboot.
Sorry for the "long" timeout...
- Czech lang support & homepage-ng
This week the translation to czech language is started. The webpages is almos ready, now maybe comes the NEWS file or other translations (pacman and so).
AlexExtreme started comtributing to the new webpage. He has got some idea, me too. The base of the new news system is ready, i just have to implement to the webpage. I think next week or so there will be some viewable thing.
- Frugalware Blog System
Welcome to our new blog system. As you can see, the blog is already at its final place, so here you can read our devels' posts. It's still not 100% complete, you'll see changins on the site (skin and so on), maybe a skin-change will come, but the core is ok.
I'd like to ask all of our devels to contact me in mail to create them a blog and a user.
- fwlive 0.1rc12
After a longer testing period, 0.1rc12 is available.
There isn't any official announcement, because it's just a testversion. If everything is ok with this version, after a few small modification the livecd will be released (maybe next week).
- Fwng - The new webpage
As you know, I'm on creating the new webpage for Frugalware. Well, some days ago i've got a big help, AlexExtreme. He created a new layout for the webpage and helped me to port the current fwng code to the new layout. Till he created this, i've made the rss, roadmap, authors, about, screenshot and the news page. Also the news page has a new feature: the news can be shown individually. Now we are working on simplifying the page access with mod_rewrite. Please see the page and comment it here or on #frugalware irc channel.
- genesis-ng news
The new main server was under a big memtest that ended this morning (i switched off the machine). The result is quiet good: the memtest was running more then 120 hours without error. The contact was informed that we'd like to replace the old genesis to the new one. Currently we are waiting for a contact time when we can do the change.
- Helicon downtime
Because of unknown reason the sw raid1 broke up and the OS could not start correctly. With the local sysadmin i started working on the problem, but the buildserver won't be available tomorrow and if the problem cannot be solved, then on weekend, too. Sorry for the long timeout. Also the darcsweb is affected.
- Helicon downtime and BTS upgrade
Helicon downtime:
At this weekend there will be a complete network donwtime at out x86_64 buildserver's network provider. The downtime will be on 8-9th of July (this weekend). Because of this, helicon won't be available from saturday morning till sunday evening (or so). We hope everything will go well and won't be any problem or slippage. Please don't start longer builds that cannot end on Friday. Thanks...BTS upgrade
I started upgrading our BTS to a newer version. But this is not as easy as i'd like to. I realized that a previous upgrade changed the database structure a bit. I copied to a new one and cleaned it and as i could see, without any problem. But i'm not sure about it, so please test it and report on frugalware-devel mailing list. The test page is available here: bugs.ironiq.hu.
- Main Server Change
Today the main server - called "genesis" - was changed to the new one. The downtime lasted about 1hour. This time we did some upgrade. The new server's response time is much better than the old one. Thanks for all of the donators.
- New build server
Well... Yesterday we have got a donation, that we have been waiting for a long time. A brand new Athlon64 mainboard with CPU and DDR400 memory (here are the parts' specs, with a modification: the memory is a Hynix 512MB DDR400). These tools are in my hand and will be put into its place maybe next week (if everything will be ok). I'll put pictures here, as i'll have enough time to work with it.
- New buildserver...
As you know, we've got a big donation, a new x86_64 buildserver. Well, the machine is ready and will be put into its final place in this week, maybe tomorrow or the next day. Its name is "helicon" and will be available for the devels maybe on this week.
Other...
If the devels want to have a blog here for its news or side-projects, send me an email to iron(a)frugalware.org with the username and the wanted blog name and I'll create it
- New webpage is coming...
I've been talking with VMiklos and we decided to rewrite the whole webpage. We are waiting for a new design. Till it is not ready, we were talking the new things. For example the pkg search page will be rewritten. The database will be redesigned, because the current version is a bit slow and a bit buggy. We would like to create a better and easier way to translate the page: using gettext (if it's possible).
As we were talking about these things, i've been thinking about the FwLive homepage. The new subdomain will be ready perhaps this night or tomorrow. The address is: http://fwlive.frugalware.hu . Here will be available the scripts I've written for the live configuration. This weekend i'll continue writing the scripts, next week i'll install the 32bit version of Frugalware and will test the scripts. If everything is ready, maybe after Christmas the LiveCD will be ready.
- Other, but important weekend work
Yesterday evening i decided to search and implement a new anti-spam thing. I didn't know which one should be useful, but i've had idea. I decided previously to implement somehow the captcha security. After some searching i've found a nice plugin to this blog engine. I decided to include this. After some hacking the security is now working. Maybe not so nice, but working and this is the most important for me.
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