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Wednesday, 21 September, 2022

How to quickly setup a new OpenAFS cell in Debian 9 aka stretch.

Because the instructions in Debian are a bit out of date I put here a quick summary of how to setup a new OpenAFS cell. This instructions complements the existing documentation and add some interesting bits for debug.First setup the kerberos client, we use in this example the MIT implementation:

apt install krb5-user

The install the fileserver software including the aklog command:

apt install openafs-dbserver openafs-fileserver openafs-krb5

Get a keytab to authenticate your OpenAFS servers:

kadmin.local
addprinc -randkey -e aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 afs/cell-name
ktadd -k /root/afs.keytab afs/cell-name
getprinc afs/cell-name
quit

Copy this keytab into you first server:

scp afs.keytab afs01:

Move the keytab into the final place:

mv afs.keytab /etc/openafs/server/rxkad.keytab
chown root: /etc/openafs/server/rxkad.keytab

To workaround a bug on afs-newcell:

touch /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile

Check if you mounted the /vicepa:

df -h /vicepa

Bootstrap:

afs-newcell

If something goes wrong you can to debug the aklog command with:

KRB5_TRACE=/dev/stdout aklog -d

List of KRB RPC errors:

Monday, 28 February, 2022

at daemon 3.2.5

The at daemon 3.2.4 is broken for some setups because POSIX timers do not play well with fork syscall. So here is the announce of 3.2.5, only to fix 3.2.4.

You can download the source and the signature from http://software.calhariz.com/at/

The changelog at 3.2.5 (2022-02-05):

at 3.2.5 (2022-02-05)
  Vincent Lefevre
        Fix: atd forgets to run a job in the queue
          https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004972

Saturday, 29 January, 2022

at daemon 3.2.4

There is a new version of at daemon, 3.2.4. Before working on releasing 3.2.3 I forgot to do a "git fetch". So quickly releasing a new version with the missing changes.

You can download the source and the signature from http://software.calhariz.com/at/

The changelog: at 3.2.4 (2022-01-29):

 at 3.2.4 (2022-01-29):
  Danillo Spinella
	Use POSIX timers to wait on next job
	Add timeformat argument in at.c
	Use secure_getenv when available
	Add O_SYNC option when opening atjob file
	Fix mtime check in atd.c
	  https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680113
	MR18 - Use POSIX timers to wait on next job
	  Upstreaming openSUSE patch: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/at/at-3.1.14-usePOSIXtimers.patch?expand=0&rev=d84f9fe442d5b5cce89c22d52581dfa4
	MR21 - Add timeformat argument in at.c
	  Upstreaming openSUSE patch: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/at/at-atq-timeformat.patch?expand=1
	MR23 - Use secure_getenv when available
	  https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/at/at-secure_getenv.patch?expand=1
	MR25 - Fix mtime check in atd.c
	  https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680113
	MR22 - Print the selected jobs in atq
	  https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/at/at-3.1.14-joblist.patch?expand=1
	MR24 - Add O_SYNC option when opening atjob file

at daemon 3.2.3

There is a new version of at daemon, 3.2.3. I have incorporated several fixes from other distributions that are using them for some time.

You can download the source and the signature from http://software.calhariz.com/at/

The changelog:

at 3.2.3 (2022-01-29):
 Jose M Calhariz
       Fix two typos on documentation
 Giulio Benetti
       MR14 - Makefile: fix parallel build failure
       MR12 - Makefile.in: use DESTDIR instead of IROOT
       MR11 - Use quotes to include config.h since it is a local file.
       MR8 - .gitignore: add all files produced during building
       MR13 - getloadavg: use standard fcntl.h for open(), close(), read() and write()
 Danilo Spinella
       MR16 - Fix leaks in at.c
       MR19 - Avoid sleeping when SIGHUP has been received
       MR17 - Set PIDDIR to /run if exists on the system
 Jan Staněk
       MR15 - Address issues raised by static analysis

Sunday, 25 April, 2021

at daemon 3.2.2

There is a new version of at daemon, 3.2.2. I add one helper script, so the bump on the patch version.

You can download the source and the signature from http://software.calhariz.com/at/

The changelog:

at 3.2.1 (2019-08-04):
    Jose M Calhariz
	Include config.h on parsetime.l, see
	88a3bed41de234220f007c785e3aa45bd62446c6 for more info and
	original author.
	Check if libc provides __isleap() macro, see
	02a0a98d94b24284177dad7747edbdc3088d63cd

at 3.2.2 (2021-04-25):
  Jose M Calhariz
	Add helper script batch-job

Thursday, 25 July, 2019

at daemon 3.2.0

There is a new version of at daemon, 3.2.0. It was implemented some new features, so the bump on the minor version.

You can download the source and the signature from http://software.calhariz.com/at/

The changelog:

at 3.2.0 (2019-07-24):
  Jose M Calhariz
        Print time of new job before the input of the commands, Closes #863045
        Do not drop seconds on -t option, Closes #792040
        Start using nice levels from 0 instead of 2. Closes #519716
        Correctly handle DST when specifying a UTC time. Closes #364975
  Gerhard Poul:
        Add flag to send email to other user. MR 5

Sunday, 21 July, 2019

New release of switchconf 0.0.16

I have not touched switchconf for a long time. Being at DebCamp19 was a good time to work on it.

I have moved the development of switchconf from a private svn repo to a git repo in salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/switchconf Created a virtual host called http://software.calhariz.com were I will publish the sources of the software that I take care. Updated the Makefile to the git repo and released version 0.0.16.

You can download the latest version of switchconf from here: http://software.calhariz.com/switchconf

Friday, 3 August, 2018

A Selection of talks from DebConf 2018

This is my selection of talks from DebConf18.

Sunday, 30 July, 2017

Crossgrading a complex Desktop and Debian Developer machine running Debian 9, for real.

After sometime without looking into this problem, I decided to do another try. I do not found a way to do a complex crossgrade of my desktop without massively removing packages. And there are bug and bug that require to edit the config scripts of the packages.

So here is my another try to do a crossgrade of my desktop, this time for real.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
dpkg --list > original.dpkg
apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg | egrep "^ii " | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do 
  echo $pack32 ; 
  apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential ${pack32%:i386}:amd64 ; 
done
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg --install libacl1_*amd64.deb libattr1_*_amd64.deb libapt-pkg5.0_*amd64.deb libbz2-1.0_*amd64.deb dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb 
dpkg --install --skip-same-version *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --install --skip-same-version *.deb
dpkg --remove libcurl4-openssl-dev:i386
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --remove libkdesu5 kde-runtime
apt-get --fix-broken install
apt-get install  $(egrep "^ii"  ~/original.dpkg | grep -v ":i386" | grep -v "all" | grep -v "aiccu" | grep -v "acroread" | grep -v "flashplayer-mozilla" | grep -v "flash-player-properties" | awk '{print $2}')

Reboot.

Then the system failed to boot, missing lvm2 package.

Boot with a live CD.

sudo -i
mount /dev/sdc2         /mnt
mount /dev/vg100/usr /mnt/usr
mount /dev/vg100/var /mnt/var
mount -o bind /proc    /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys     /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /dev/    /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /dev/pts  /mnt/dev/pts
chroot /mnt /bin/su -
apt-get install lvm2
exit
reboot

Still somethings do not work, like command fakeroot.

for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg  | egrep "^ii " | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do     
  echo $pack32 ;     
  if dpkg --status $pack32 | grep -q "Multi-Arch: same" ; then       
    apt-get -y install ${pack32%:i386}:amd64 ;     
  fi ;   
done

for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg  | egrep "^ii " | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do     
  echo $pack32 ;     
  apt-get -y install ${pack32%:i386}:amd64 ;     
done

Now is time to find what still does not work and how to solve it.

Sunday, 16 July, 2017

Crossgrading a complex Desktop and Debian Developer machine running Debian 9

This article is an experiment in progress, please recheck, while I am updating with the new information.

I have a very old installation of Debian, possibly since v2, dot not remember, that I have upgraded since then both in software and hardware. Now the hardware is 64bits, runs a kernel of 64bits but the run-time is still 32bits. For 99% of tasks this is very good. Now that I have made many simulations I may have found a solution to do a crossgrade of my desktop. I write here the tentative procedure and I will update with more ideias on the problems that I may found.

First you need to install a 64bits kernel and boot with it. See my previous post on how to do it.

Second you need to do a bootstrap of crossgrading and the instalation of all the libs as amd64:

 apt-get update
 apt-get upgrade
 apt-get clean
 dpkg --list > original.dpkg
 apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
 cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
 dpkg --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb
 dpkg --configure --pending
 dpkg -i --skip-same-version dpkg_*_amd64.deb apt_*_amd64.deb bash_*_amd64.deb dash_*_amd64.deb mawk_*_amd64.deb *.deb
 
 for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg  | egrep "^ii " | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do 
   echo $pack32 ; 
   if dpkg --status $pack32 | grep -q "Multi-Arch: same" ; then 
     apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential ${pack32%:i386}:amd64 ; 
   fi ; 
 done

 dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
 dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
 dpkg --print-architecture
 dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

But this procedure does not prevent the "apt-get install" to have broken dependencies.

So trying to install the core packages and the libraries using "dpkg -i".

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
dpkg --list > original.dpkg
apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg | egrep "^ii " | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do 
  echo $pack32 ; 
  if dpkg --status $pack32 | grep -q "Multi-Arch: same" ; then 
    apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential ${pack32%:i386}:amd64 ; 
  fi ; 
done
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --install --skip-same-version dpkg_*_amd64.deb apt_*_amd64.deb bash_*_amd64.deb dash_*_amd64.deb mawk_*_amd64.deb *.deb

dpkg --remove libcurl4-openssl-dev
dpkg -i libcurl4-openssl-dev_*_amd64.deb

Remove packages until all there is no brokens packages

dpkg --print-architecture
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
apt-get --fix-broken --allow-remove-essential install

Still broken, because apt-get removed dpkg

So instead of only installing the libs with dpkg -i, I am going to try to install all the packages with dpkg -i:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
dpkg --list > original.dpkg
apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg | egrep "^ii " | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do 
  echo $pack32 ; 
  apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential ${pack32%:i386}:amd64 ; 
done
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --install --skip-same-version dpkg_*_amd64.deb apt_*_amd64.deb bash_*_amd64.deb dash_*_amd64.deb mawk_*_amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending

Remove packages and reinstall selected packages until you fix all off them. Follow the trial for my machine:

dpkg --remove rkhunter
dpkg --remove libmarco-private1:i386 marco mate-control-center mate-desktop-environment-core mate-desktop-environment-core  mate-desktop-environment mate-desktop-environment-core mate-desktop-environment-extras
dpkg --remove libmate-menu2:i386 libmate-window-settings1:i386 mate-panel mate-screensaver python-mate-menu libmate-slab0:i386 mozo mate-menus
dpkg --remove libmate-menu2:i386 mate-panel python-mate-menu mate-applets mate-menus
dpkg -i libmate-menu2_1.16.0-2_amd64.deb
dpkg --remove  gir1.2-ibus-1.0:i386 gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions gdm3 gnome-session
dpkg --remove  gir1.2-ibus-1.0:i386
dpkg --remove libmateweather1:i386
dpkg -i libmateweather1_1.16.1-2_amd64.deb

apt-get --fix-broken --download-only install
dpkg --skip-same-version --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg -i python_2.7.13-2_amd64.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg -i perl_5.24.1-3+deb9u1_amd64.deb perl-base_5.24.1-3+deb9u1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i exim4-daemon-light_4.89-2+deb9u1_amd64.deb exim4-base_4.89-2+deb9u1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libuuid-perl_0.27-1_amd64.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.10.4-1_amd64.deb libmpeg2encpp-2.1-0_1%3a2.1.0+debian-5_amd64.deb libmplex2-2.1-0_1%3a2.1.0+debian-5_amd64.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --audit

Now fixing broken dependencies on apt-get. Found no other way than removing all the broken packages.

dpkg --remove $(apt-get --fix-broken install | cut -f 2 -d ' ' )
apt-get install $(grep -v ":i386" ~/original.dpkg | egrep "^ii" | grep -v "aiccu" | grep -v "acroread" | grep -v "flash-player-properties" | grep -v "flashplayer-mozilla" | egrep -v "tp-flash-marillat" | awk '{print $2}')

Thursday, 13 July, 2017

Crossgrading a more typical server in Debian9

First you need to install a 64bits kernel and boot with it. See my previous post on how to do it.

Second you need to do a bootstrap of crossgrading:

 apt-get clean
 apt-get upgrade
 apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
 dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
 dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
 dpkg --print-architecture
 dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

Third, do a crossgrade of the libraries:

 dpkg --list > original.dpkg
 apt-get --fix-broken --allow-remove-essential install
 for pack32 in $(grep :i386 original.dpkg | awk '{print $2}' ) ; do 
   if dpkg --status $pack32 | grep -q "Multi-Arch: same" ; then 
     apt-get install --yes --allow-remove-essential ${pack32%:i386} ; 
   fi ; 
 done

Forth, do a full crossgrade:

 if ! apt-get install --allow-remove-essential $(grep :i386 original.dpkg | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e s/:i386//) ; then
   apt-get --fix-broken --allow-remove-essential install
   apt-get install --allow-remove-essential $(grep :i386 original.dpkg | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e s/:i386//)
 fi

Wednesday, 12 July, 2017

Crossgrading a minimal install of Debian 9

By testing the previous instructions for a full crosgrade I run into trouble. Here is the results of my tests to do a full crossgrade of a minimal installation of Debian inside a VM.

First you need to install a 64bits kernel and boot with it. See my previous post on how to do it.

Second you need to do a bootstrap of crossgrading:

 apt-get clean
 apt-get upgrade
 apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64
 dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
 dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
 dpkg --print-architecture
 dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
 apt-get --fix-broken --allow-remove-essential install

Third do a full crossgrade:

 apt-get install --allow-remove-essential $(dpkg --list | grep :i386 | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e s/:i386// )

This procedure seams to be a little fragile, but worked most of the time for me.

Crossgrading the kernel in Debian 9

I have a very old installation of 32bits Debian running in new hardware. Until now running a 64bits kernel was enough to use efficiently more than 4GiB of RAM. The only problem I found was the proprietary drivers from AMD/ATI and NVIDIA, that did not like this mixed environment and some problems with openafs, easilly solved with the help of the package maintainers of openafs. Crossgrading the Qemu/KVM to 64 bits did not pose a problem, so I have been running 64bits VMs for some time.

But now the nouveau driver do not work with my new display adapter and I need to run tools from OpsCode not available as 32bits. So is time to do a CrossGrade. Finding some problems I can not recommend it to the inexperienced people. Is time investigate the issues and report bugreports to Debian were appropriate.

If you run 32bits Debian installation you can easily install a 64bits kernel . The procedure is simple and well tested.

dpkg --add-architecture amd64
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-amd64:amd64

And reboot to test the new kernel.

You can expect here more articles about crossgrading.

Tuesday, 25 October, 2016

New packages for Amanda on the works

Because of the upgrade of perl, amanda is currently broken on testing and unstable on Debian. The problem is known and I am working with my sponsor to create new packages to solve the problem. Please hang a little more.

Saturday, 20 August, 2016

Availabilty of at at the Major Linux Distributions

In this blog post I will cover what versions of software at is used by the leading Linux Distributions as reported by LWN.

Also

Currently some distributions are lagging on the use of the latest at software.

Saturday, 30 July, 2016

Enabling Wifi QCA9377 on a Asus E200HA

I bought a new laptop E200HA, because my previous was a MacBook and It broke after a fall into the ground.

I let it boot first in Win10 to check if everything was OK and because I could not found the way to enter in the UEFI/BIOS. It is F2 and is edge triggered. It boots fast into Win10, but I got the feeling of being a little slow. No worries because I it bought for running Debian and because of the autonomy of the battery, 14hours playing music according to Asus. A little research if the new laptop could run Linux almost return no hits, but one very valuable link on how to setup the Wifi. So I got the feeling that I needed a Debian stretch CD for installation. So I download the first installation DVD from here. Run a trial of the DVD image using kvm

kvm -m 2047 -cdrom debian-stretch-DI-alpha7-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Found that the installer DVD now have the functionality of Live CD. This will be useful. Copy the image to a USB stick using dd command.

I turned on the E200HA, entered into the UEFI/BIOS by pressing and releasing the F2 key. Turned off the secure boot and select USB storage for boot. The E200HA happily boot the Linux and I select the rescue mode. Using another USB stick of 32GB that was formatted in xfs, because of the lower slack for storing the inodes than ext3/4. In this USB stick I put a raw image of the internal storage of the E200HA, preserving this way the Win10.

Another reboot, this time for installation of Debian stretch. It detected the lack of firmware files, for the WiFi adaptor. This link come very handy. The instructions are for an older Linux kernel. So I recommend doing something similar to the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/ajaybhatia/Qualcomm-Atheros-QCA9377-Wifi-Linux
cd Qualcomm-Atheros-QCA9377-Wifi-Linux/firmware-only
tar cvf QCA9377.tar QCA9377

Copy the tar file to a a second USB stick and connect it to the other USB port. This tar is not the files the Debian installer are expecting, so you need to change to the second console "Alt-F2", press enter to activate a shell, and do the following commands:

cd /lib/firmware
mkdir ath10k
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cd ath10k
tar xf /mnt/QCA9377.tar

Return to the first console "Alt-F1" and continue with the installation. The list of missing firmware files is reduced and the WiFi can work. I had problems with the WiFI, but was because a neighbor router was on the same channel, since I changed the channel of my router the WiFi is working as a charm.

The following links maybe useful in the future or as a reference:

kvalo/ath10k-firmware

kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

Thursday, 11 February, 2016

Preview of amanda 3.3.8-1, second try.

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

Friday, 5 February, 2016

Preview of amanda 3.3.8-1

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

Preview of switchconf 0.0.15-1

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

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