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Sunday, 21 January 2007 |
Things are progressing with the 64-bit packages, with the first packages becoming available for ASL on later in the week. One of the major hurdles holding me up has been automating the build process for both 32 and 64 bit platforms using DAR. To resolve the problem I've been exploring the mock/mach build environments along with the plague build server used by the Fedora project. No decisions yet, but I've gotten a reasonable facsimile of DAR made around mock. Dag Wieer who wrote DAR did a pretty amazing job with all the subtle things you need to have in place for a reliable automated build environment. Big shoes to fill on my part.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 January 2007 )
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
So I was tearing apart the psa-qmail rpm, to make sure I got all the parts I needed into mine, and in the process I googled for some information on extracting trigger/post/pre macro information out of an rpm.
As it happened to be, I found an article about it that told me what I needed to know and went about my day. It wasn't until a few hours later I looked at that particular tab in firefox again and realized that the author of the article was me. Even when I read my own stuff, I don't recognize it.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 January 2007 )
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
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The guy who wrote GNU make
is a fascist.
So I'm working on making a
common PSA/Project Gamera rpm, modifying the Plesk patches as a base
(more on this later), and I hit this:
[root@build
qmail-1.03]# make clean
Makefile:1420:
*** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.
You tab-enforcing bastard.
I understand the use of a tab in code, I just don't like it. Im a
spacer, as opposed to a tabber. Tabbers are heathens. But I
digress.
Anyway, this is all
started because qmail is a very stripped down MTA, and to get any
modern features out of it, you've got to apply all the patches
yourself. No problem, Ive been doing this for years now, where my
problems come from is that there are so many that you've got to apply
(24 as of the time of this writing) that you end up having to modify
patches to work with other patches. Thats where my little error comes
in above.
Working with qmail is a
lot like being a digital anthropologist. You've got to back track all
untold revisions of patches, patches on patches, and oh yes, did I
mention that FreeBSD* renamed all of them? So not only are you
hamstrung by the fact that there are 10-15 different patches to do
the same thing in qmail-land, the ones with PSA are named incredibly
useful things like “patch-pe”, leaving it up to you to figure out
where they came from and what they do.
* PSA's version of qmail
is based on the version from FreeBSD ports. Plesk was originally
written for freebsd.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 January 2007 )
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
To ease the burden of archive configuration, I've created the atomic-release rpm, and an associated atomic.sh installer script. This will automatically configure the Atomic yum archive for your system if you are running FC3, FC4, FC5, FC6, or CentOS4. I also updated the Download page to reflect this update in the Automatic Configuration section. You can now configure the [atomic] channel, as well as install the ART GPG key with the following:
lynx -source http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/installers/atomic.sh |sh
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Tuesday, 02 January 2007 |
From www.fedoralegacy.org: "The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older Fedora Core releases as we had planned. As of now, Fedora Core 4 and earlier distributions are no longer being maintained.". Unless you're planning on maintaining your own updates, I highly recommend migrating to a supported platform, like CentOS or RHEL.
With the exception of the ASL channels, I will no longer be actively maintaining packages for rh9, FC2, FC3, or FC4 in the archive. That being said, the way I build packages is for the most part distribution independent, so I will continue to produce packages for those platforms. All that means is that if for some reason a package wont build on one of those distributions, I'm not going to put in any effort to fix it so it does.
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
I'm in need of some systems at 1and1, and any other major hosting facility to update the AOOI (Atomic Offline OS installer) project to work with CentOS 4.4. The project will involve probably 2 or 3 days of downtime for the system(s) involved, and of course any data on the system will be lost in the testing. You will end up with a shiney new CentOS 4 box, and a sane partition layout. Oh and props in the AOOI installer credits. Apply now! While supplies last!
Help much appreciated!
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