Tuesday, 28 June, 2016
By Jose M Calhariz on Tuesday, 28 June, 2016, 22:14 - Software
From the Debian BUG system I incorporated 3 fixes. One of them is
experimental. It fixes a broken code but may have side effects. Please test
it.
* Add option b to getopt, (Closes: #812972).
* Comment a possible broken code, (Closes: #818508).
* Add a fflush to catch more errors during writes, (Closes: #801186).
You may download from here at_3.1.20.orig.tar.gz.
Sunday, 20 March, 2016
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 20 March, 2016, 20:03 - Software
Thanks to Wenzong Fan, now the configure flag --without-selinux works
properly.
So here is a new release at 3.1.19.
Please test it.
Thursday, 11 February, 2016
By Jose M Calhariz on Thursday, 11 February, 2016, 18:13 - Software
I found a bug in amanda-3.3.8 that was quickly fixed by upstream. Please
upgrade to this version.
The updates will go to collab-maint.The debs files for jessie are here:
amanda-common_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb
amanda-server_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb
amanda-client_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb
Here comes the changelog:
amanda (1:3.3.8-1~cal1) unstable; urgency=low
* New Upstream version
* Changes for 3.3.8
* s3 devices
New NEARLINE S3-STORAGE-CLASS for Google storage.
New AWS4 STORAGE-API
* amcryptsimple
Works with newer gpg2.
* amgtar
Default SPARSE value is NO if tar < 1.28.
Because a bug in tar with some filesystem.
* amstar
support include in backup mode.
* ampgsql
Add FULL-WAL property.
* Many bugs fix.
* Changes for 3.3.7p1
* Fix build in 3.3.7
* Changes for 3.3.7
* amvault
new --no-interactivity argument.
new --src-labelstr argument.
* amdump
compute crc32 of the streams and write them to the debug files.
* chg-robot
Add a BROKEN-DRIVE-LOADED-SLOT property.
* Many bugs fix.
* Refreshed patches.
* Dropped patches that were applied by the upstream: fix-misc-typos,
automake-add-missing, fix-amcheck-M.patch,
fix-device-src_rait-device.c, fix-amreport-perl_Amanda_Report_human.pm
* Change the email of the maintainer.
* "wrap-and-sort -at" all control files.
* swig is a new build depend.
* Bump standard version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
* Replace deprecated dependency perl5 by perl, (Closes: #808209), thank
you Gregor Herrmann for the NMU.
* New patch fix-amgtar-exclude to fix amgtar when the exclude file don't
exist.
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:52:08 +0000
Tuesday, 9 February, 2016
By Jose M Calhariz on Tuesday, 9 February, 2016, 19:23 - Conference
It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source
Software Developers' European Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks are
very good, with good presentations and contents.
It's very dificult to choose what talks to see, what talks to see later in
video and what talks to loose. What I leave here is my selection of talks. This
selection is representative of my tastes, not of the quality of the
presentations. I will give links for material that is available now. I will do
periodic updates when the new material is available: video or slides.
Friday, 5 February, 2016
By Jose M Calhariz on Friday, 5 February, 2016, 19:49 - Software
While I sort out a sponsor, my sponsor is very busy, here is a preview of
the new packages. So anyone can install and test them on jessie.
The source of the packages is in collab-maint.The debs files for jessie are
here:
amanda-common_3.3.8-1_cal0_i386.deb
amanda-server_3.3.8-1_cal0_i386.deb
amanda-client_3.3.8-1_cal0_i386.deb
Here comes the changelog:
amanda (1:3.3.8-1~cal0) unstable; urgency=low
* New Upstream version
* Changes for 3.3.8
* s3 devices
New NEARLINE S3-STORAGE-CLASS for Google storage.
New AWS4 STORAGE-API
* amcryptsimple
Works with newer gpg2.
* amgtar
Default SPARSE value is NO if tar < 1.28.
Because a bug in tar with some filesystem.
* amstar
support include in backup mode.
* ampgsql
Add FULL-WAL property.
* Many bugs fix.
* Changes for 3.3.7p1
* Fix build in 3.3.7
* Changes for 3.3.7
* amvault
new --no-interactivity argument.
new --src-labelstr argument.
* amdump
compute crc32 of the streams and write them to the debug files.
* chg-robot
Add a BROKEN-DRIVE-LOADED-SLOT property.
* Many bugs fix.
* Refreshed patches.
* Dropped patches that were applied by the upstream: fix-misc-typos,
automake-add-missing, fix-amcheck-M.patch,
fix-device-src_rait-device.c, fix-amreport-perl_Amanda_Report_human.pm
* Change the email of the maintainer.
* "wrap-and-sort -at" all control files.
* swig is a new build depend.
* Bump standard version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
* Replace deprecated dependency perl5 by perl, (Closes: #808209), thank
you Gregor Herrmann for the NMU.
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:56:12 +0000
Tuesday, 29 December, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Tuesday, 29 December, 2015, 21:04 - Software
Since the last version 0.0.9 on Debian, I have made some changes until
version 0.0.14. The version 0.0.15 is only to include a fix for the new
findutils. I thank you to Andreas Metzler for the fix and the prompt NMU.
The files are here, take notice about the replaced ~ in the original by
_:
switchconf_0.0.15.orig.tar.xz
switchconf_0.0.15-1_wip1.debian.tar.xz
switchconf_0.0.15-1_wip1_all.deb
If you need the dsc file, just ask me.
Here comes the changelog since 0.0.9, without the lastest NMU:
switchconf (0.0.15-1~wip1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream version:
* Replace 'find -perm +1' by 'find -perm /1', thank you Andreas
Metzler for the patch and the NMU.
* Add systemd service file, thank you Felipe Sateler for reviewing it.
* Bump standards-version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
* New maintainer email address.
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com> Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:59:07 +0000
switchconf (0.0.14-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Force the use of bash, instead of a POSIX shell.
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt> Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:37:04 +0100
switchconf (0.0.13-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Add Homepage field pointing to alioth page of the project
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt> Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:01:07 +0000
switchconf (0.0.13-1) wheezy; urgency=low
* New upstream version:
* Distribution tar is now compressed by xz
* Change to source format 3.0 (quilt)
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt> Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:56:31 +0000
switchconf (0.0.12-1) wheezy; urgency=low
* Fixed some typos on switchconf
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt> Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:39:09 +0000
switchconf (0.0.11-1) wheezy; urgency=low
* New upstream version:
* Makefile: add target dist-exp to build distribution files.
* Add flag -f with the path to the configuration file.
* Update debian/rules to version 0.24.
* Update debian/control with new name and email address of Maintainer.
* Update copyright.
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt> Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:04:22 +0000
switchconf (0.0.10-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream version:
* Fix return code on error.
* Use syslog system to report errors.
-- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:23:46 +0000
Sunday, 20 December, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 20 December, 2015, 15:23 - Software
Currently, as of today, amanda on sid is not installable because of a
dependency on perl5 instead of perl. While I sort out a sponsor, my sponsor is
very busy, here is a preview of the new packages. So anyone can install and
test them and work around bug #808209.
The source of the packages is in collab-maint. The debs files are here:
Sunday, 13 December, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 13 December, 2015, 18:24 - Software
Thanks to the work of Laurent Bigonville, now the at daemon have SELinux
support.
So here is a new release at
3.1.18.
Please test it.
Sunday, 6 December, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 6 December, 2015, 16:09
I decided some time ago to take over the development of at daemon.
Here is a new release of at
v3.1.17
From the Changelog:
at 3.1.17 (2015-08-31):
Jose M Calhariz:
at.1.in: Document behaviour when using past time, thanks Kelly Price (Closes: #639900).
Makefile.in: On distclean remove at.allow.5, auto generated file.
Saturday, 5 September, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Saturday, 5 September, 2015, 16:49 - Hardware
Do you have problems with UEFI? Take a look into this page
Sunday, 30 August, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 30 August, 2015, 16:50 - Software
There was a long time since I published the last version of switchconf.
This time someone requested that I add support for systemd by adding a
service file. This service file does not make switchconf depend on systemd. It
will still work with svs init scripts.
As my knowledge of systemd is minimal, please review my changes.
To download use the following entries:
switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4_all.deb
switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4.debian.tar.xz
switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4.dsc
switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4_amd64.changes
switchconf_0.0.14.orig.tar.xz
Tuesday, 28 April, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Tuesday, 28 April, 2015, 15:13 - Software
Some notes on locking.
flock (1) (2)
lockfile (1)
Do not put the PID inside the lock file.
mutt_dotlock (1)
lockfile_create (3)
maillock (1) lockfile-create lockfile-remove lockfile-touch
lockfile-check
lockfile-create --use-pid -r 0 file ; echo $?
lockfile-remove file
if ! lockfile-create --use-pid -r 0 file ; then echo no lock ; else echo
lock ; fi
Tuesday, 27 January, 2015
By Jose M Calhariz on Tuesday, 27 January, 2015, 13:26 - Conference
It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European
Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks
are very good, with good presentations and contents.
It's very dificult to choose what talks to see, what talks to see later in
video and what talks to loose. What I leave here is my selection of talks. This
selection is representative of my tastes, not of the quality of the
presentations. I will give links for material that is available now. I will do
periodic updates when the new material is available: video or slides.
Saturday, 30 August, 2014
By Jose M Calhariz on Saturday, 30 August, 2014, 01:34 - Conference
This year I came to DebConf14. It's the anual conference of Debian. It's an
interesting conference where the people get together to talk and hack about
Debian. This year have the big bonus of a Q&A from Linus Torvalds.
Here is a selection of talks from DebConf14.
Video
Video
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Video
Video
Sunday, 24 August, 2014
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 24 August, 2014, 17:42 - Software
I have published a new version of switchconf, v0.0.14.
Can be downloaded from switchconf_0.0.14.orig.tar.xz
This is the relevant part from the Changelog.
* Force the use of bash, instead of a POSIX shell.
Friday, 21 March, 2014
By Jose M Calhariz on Friday, 21 March, 2014, 16:59
I found this article from Theodore Ts'o, interesting.
Sunday, 2 March, 2014
By Jose M Calhariz on Sunday, 2 March, 2014, 17:56 - Software
I have published a new version of switchconf.
There are a number of changes since the previous public release 0.0.9 that I
have to thank to John Halam. He sent me a big patch with a lots of new features
that I am integrating one by one.
You may download switchconf from here.
Saturday, 1 February, 2014
By Jose M Calhariz on Saturday, 1 February, 2014, 19:50 - Software
In 2005 I was looking for ways to auto collect information about a Linux
server. The information was to be used in case of bare bones recovery. I didn't
found a satisfactory program so I created one, sysinfoupdate.
This program have been growing long this years and now is a system that helps
to maintain a diary of a Linux Installation. The diary records all the
important changes the sysadmin does to the system. This records can be used
during recovery after a broken hardware or to detect what change may be causing
a malfunction, for example.
It's use is very simple, create a diario
directory in your home
directory, for example /root/diario, and then run
sysinfoupdate. Inside diario
you will find a group
files with textual information about your system. It works best if you run it
as superuser and you keep track of the changes under a version control system,
like subversion or git.
You can download the Debian package here or download the source from here.
By Jose M Calhariz on Saturday, 1 February, 2014, 19:29 - Conference
It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European
Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks
are very good, with good presentations and contents.
It is a big conference and this year, is not an exception. With 445 speakers
and 512 talks at 22 rooms in only two days. It's impossible to see all the
presentations. This year all the rooms have a video camcorder.
It's very dificult to choose what talks to see, what talks to see later in
video and what talks to loose. What I leave here is my selection of talks. This
selection is representative of my tastes, not of the quality of the
presentations. I will give links for material that is available now. I will do
periodic updates when the new material is available: video or slides.
video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
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Monday, 15 July, 2013
By Jose M Calhariz on Monday, 15 July, 2013, 15:37
I have improved the packaging of kibana for Debian.
- Add missing dependency on ruby-fastercsv.
- Fix init.d status.
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2_all.deb
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2.dsc
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6.orig.tar.gz
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2.debian.tar.gz
The CMS have replaced the + by _ in the filenames. Be prepared to rename
back the files before doing dpkg-source -x
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2.dsc