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Paludis 0.42.2 has been released: An obscure resolver bug that results in ‘evolution’ trying to downgrade ‘gnupg’ on Gentoo has been fixed. paludis -i foo::installed now gives an explanation of why it doesn’t do what some people seem to expect. Assorted documentation tweaks. Posted in paludis releases Tagged: paludis

Paludis 0.42.1 has been released: Various improvements to error handling. Syncing svn repositories no longer breaks when using weird locales. GNU info handling will now work even if Paludis is run via sudo with env_reset enabled. Posted in paludis releases Tagged: paludis

In between all the things a developer can possibly do in Exherbo, we’ve finally found the time to package KDE for Exherbo! A bit on the late side, but better late than never. Meanwhile, while you are testing KDE 4.1.0 on Exherbo, we’ll be working on ... [More] KDE 4.1.1, our first real KDE bump. For those of you who are curious, you can find the git repository at here. To clone it install dev-scm/git and run git clone git://git.exherbo.org/kde.git kde Those of you who use(d) Gentoo will notice that we’ve changed quite a few things, most notably: parts. As you’ll see if you followed the gitweb link, we’re not offering split KDE packages. Instead we hope to be able to use parts when that has been fleshed out properly. In practice this means that one exheres maps to one KDE tarball, as provided by upstream. Parts will still allow you to select what KDE programs you do or do not want to install. In general we want to stay as close to upstream as possible, and this is just another result of that. After all the time we spent on packaging KDE on Gentoo, we’re not convinced that splitting up everything, in a source distro, is the way to go. We’d better take that effort upstream instead. If we ever do split packages in Exherbo we will definitely not split it out in one package per sub-directory but instead we’ll only add packages that we know people will like to use, or disable. I must say I was really surprised by the quality of this release, and no doubt KDE 4.1.1 will be even better, so enjoy! (Logo by Ida Jensen, with changes by Anders ‘arkanoid’ Ossowicki, thanks!) [Less]

In between all the things a developer can possibly do in Exherbo, we’ve finally found the time to package KDE for Exherbo! A bit on the late side, but better late than never. Meanwhile, while you are testing KDE 4.1.0 on Exherbo, we’ll be working on ... [More] KDE 4.1.1, our first real KDE bump. For those of you who are curious, you can find the git repository at here. To clone it install dev-scm/git and run git clone git://git.exherbo.org/kde.git kde Those of you who use(d) Gentoo will notice that we’ve changed quite a few things, most notably: parts. As you’ll see if you followed the gitweb link, we’re not offering split KDE packages. Instead we hope to be able to use parts when that has been fleshed out properly. In practice this means that one exheres maps to one KDE tarball, as provided by upstream. Parts will still allow you to select what KDE programs you do or do not want to install. In general we want to stay as close to upstream as possible, and this is just another result of that. After all the time we spent on packaging KDE on Gentoo, we’re not convinced that splitting up everything, in a source distro, is the way to go. We’d better take that effort upstream instead. If we ever do split packages in Exherbo we will definitely not split it out in one package per sub-directory but instead we’ll only add packages that we know people will like to use, or disable. I must say I was really surprised by the quality of this release, and no doubt KDE 4.1.1 will be even better, so enjoy! (Logo by Ida Jensen, with changes by Anders ‘arkanoid’ Ossowicki, thanks!) [Less]

I’ve been using nouveau 2D on my laptop for ages, and given how we don’t package the blob, maybe it’s time I write down how to install the nouveau driver. Note that while nouveau works wonderfully on all but one of the cards I’ve tried it on, it’s ... [More] still considered experimental. Also keep in mind that the Gallium 3D work is completely unsupported, so do not bug the nouveau devs about it. You can install everything except the nouveau kernel module using paludis, from exhereses, since we don’t have any kernel handling in Exherbo yet. There was some discussion of requirements a while ago, but nothing has materialized so far. First install x11-dri/libdrm with video_drivers: nouveau enabled. Second, install the kernel module: # Ensure that CONFIG_DRM is disabled in your kernel # Grab the libdrm sources: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm cd drm/linux-core # Adjust LINUXDIR to the path to the kernel that you’re installing the nouveau module for make LINUXDIR=/usr/src/linux nouveau.o # Or use importare, for bonus points… sudo make LINUXDIR=/usr/src/linux install Third, install the 2D driver, x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. Fourth, load the drm & nouveau modules automatically, and ensure that the binary nvidia module isn’t loaded. Enable the driver in xorg.conf. If you want to try 3D, build x11-dri/mesa with video_drivers: nouveau enabled. If you did everything right, glxinfo will show the following (and much more…): OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. and nouveau OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.2 on NV4B OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.5-devel Or, you can just enable the XRender backend in KWin, and wait for the Gallium 3D API to stabilize… [Less]

So, a few days ago, the linux-iphone-dev team announced that syncing an iPhone or iPod Touch is possible under Linux. I just finished packaging the usbmuxd, libiphone, ifuse stack, and now my iPhone finally mounts over usb. No more messing with ... [More] sshfs, just to sync a few songs with gtkpod (Amarok, where’s my libgpod support?). Pictures are accessible in Dolphin. And this all works without having to jailbreak it. Packages are now available in ::hardware, tested on my iPhone and on Anders‘ second gen iPod Touch. [Less]

So, a few days ago, the linux-iphone-dev team announced that syncing an iPhone or iPod Touch is possible under Linux. I just finished packaging the usbmuxd, libiphone, ifuse stack, and now my iPhone finally mounts over usb. No more messing with ... [More] sshfs, just to sync a few songs with gtkpod (Amarok, where’s my libgpod support?). Pictures are accessible in Dolphin. And this all works without having to jailbreak it. Packages are now available in ::hardware, tested on my iPhone and on Anders‘ second gen iPod Touch. [Less]

Paludis 0.42.0 has been released: Qualudis has been removed. Various cached values are now forcibly discarded when they’re not going to be used any more, leading to paludis –owner and reconcilio using considerably less RAM. Various bug, style and ... [More] performance fixes related to updates (package moves etc). By default updates will still only be displayed but not carried out; consult the FAQ for details. Posted in paludis releases Tagged: paludis [Less]

My day job mostly involves Perl, so I've been using it more for my random tasks at home. I've now put a few of them up on CPAN: Unix::Uptime - Determine the current uptime, in seconds, and load averages, across different *NIX architectures. ... [More] Remind::Client - class for working with remind's daemon mode I also have a few other scripts I've been messing around with, for doing some reporting and such: git-author-stats.pl - Gives a URL to draw a pretty pie chart of the top 10 committers to the current git repository. Examples: Exherbo: ::x11 ::vim ::arbor's multilib branch Paludis git-daemon-report.pl - Given some log file, scrape it stats on who is pulling which of your git repos, and from where. Won't work unless you run git-daemon with --verbose. [Less]

My day job mostly involves Perl, so I’ve been using it more for my random tasks at home. I’ve now put a few of them up on CPAN: Unix::Uptime - Determine the current uptime, in seconds, and load averages, across different *NIX architectures. ... [More] Remind::Client - class for working with remind’s daemon mode I also have a few other scripts I’ve been messing around with, for doing some reporting and such: git-author-stats.pl - Gives a URL to draw a pretty pie chart of the top 10 committers to the current git repository. Examples: Exherbo: ::x11 ::vim ::arbor’s multilib branch Paludis git-daemon-report.pl - Given some log file, scrape it stats on who is pulling which of your git repos, and from where. Won’t work unless you run git-daemon with –verbose. [Less]