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I have just uploaded PowerDNS 3.3-1~exp1 to Debian experimental. This new upstream version has introduced its own include directive, so Debian was able to drop its patch. Hence, our conffiles had to grow a .conf extension, which most of them didn t have in previous version. If anybody wants to test updates from PowerDNS 3.1 to the new 3.3-1~exp1 in Debian unstable, please go ahead and report bugs…
Migrating a Debian installation between architectures has always been difficult. The recommended way to "crossgrade" an i386 Debian to amd64 Debian is to reinstall the system, move over data and configuration. For the more brave, in-place crossgrades usually involved chroots, rescue CDs, a lot of ar p | tar xf - data.tar.gz and luck. I have never been brave when it comes to system administration,…
In den letzten 24 Stunden habe ich endlich mal wieder was für Debian gemacht: dnstop und sipcalc vom bisherigen Maintainer übernommen, auf Vordermann gebracht und uploaded, und immerhin einen Alibi-Upload von pdns-recursor, damit auch der recursor mit der neuen Maintainer-Mailingliste im Maintainerfeld und dem korrekten Alioth-Vcs-Link im debian/control nach Wheezy kommt.
I have published PowerDNS version 3.1-1.0 on https://ivanova.notwork.de/~mh/debian/pdns/ This is a preliminary package and a release candidate to be 3.1-2 in Debian. If you re interested in PowerDNS on Debian, please test this package. I plan to upload next week. This package will vanish from the web server once the package is visible in Debian.
Eight days ago, I uploaded atop 1.26-1 to DELAYED/8, listing me as new maintainer. This means that the package has in the mean time appeared in unstable, and I hope that it ll swiftly migrate to testing.
It is well known that apt has an issue when it comes to resolving circular dependencies. Therefore, Debian bug reporters have set out to eradicate circular dependencies from the archive. This does, however, add significant bloat to the actual packages, and I am questioning why this is really necessary. Continue reading "How much added complexity in packages to cater for apt s shortcomings?"
Dear Lazyweb, can anybody with some advanced socat-foo tell me the command line needed to have socat create a socket in the local file system and to listen on it, so that I can have Virtualbox connect a virtual serial console to it? The material available on socat on the web is sparse, and virtualbox-related docs usually contain "tick the create pipe option", which is not helpful here since I…
Traditionally, the Linux kernel is software that I compile myself from pristine upstream sources for various reasons. I have three major kernel flavours that get built (server, desktop and notebook), and I am pretty current in running a bleeding edge kernel. This is not really necessary any more nowadays, but it s a tradition that works pretty well. My kernels get built on sid and are packaged up…
I have been using current KDE since most of my Linux time (having converted over from WindowMaker to KDE 2 back in 2002). But currently, I am seriously pondering to ditch KDE since KDE upstream seems to be wildly decided to kill KDE. I have accidentally upgraded my desktop box to KDE4 because I missed putting KDE on hold before doing a major sid update after a couple of months. KDE4 s first…
Dear Lazyweb, I have just found out that ksynaptics has stopped working against the X in unstable, and that ksynaptics is not even in lenny, let alone in current testing and/or unstable. This currently leaves me with an unconfigured touchpad, which is a major nuisance since I have gotten accustomed to tap-dragging and touchpad border scrolling. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics README.Debian dates back…
I haven t been using ATM on Linux for some six years now. I neither have access to an ATM network any more nor do I have ATM hardware any more. Therefore, I plan to remove ATM support from ifupdown-scripts-zg2 in the next release which will be done in the next few weeks. If anybody does still use ATM on Linux in conjunction with my scripts, you might want to offer help with the package if you want…
In the last few weeks, I spent quite some time wondering about how to arrange the hard disk layout of my productive systems in the future. This article outlines my thoughts and would like to ask the lazyweb for comments. I try to keep my Debian servers as identically as possible, making it possible to talk non-linux persons remotely through the system without having to worry about this particular…
A few months, I blogged about the pains I had with my nVidia FX 5200 graphics card, Debian and current kernels. I have solved the issue in the mean time and would like to document what I did. This has been updated to reflect driver 173.14.20 from July 2009. Continue reading "nVidia and current Kernels II"
Dear lazyweb, how do I pin lenny now and have that pin hold after lenny s release? Codename lenny doesn t work, apt cannot do this ( #433624, 18 months old, without any reaction yet ) Version 5.0 doesn t work, lenny s Release file doesn t have a Version field yet Suite testing will match lenny now and then track squeeze once squeeze is testing Is there any method that will get me testing lenny now…
This is just a small reminder (for me and others) that Debian is currently migrating from console-tools to kbd (back again, yes, those who have been around for a few years remember). This information is obviously a closely-guarded secret. Console-tools is still Priority: important, and kbd is still Priority: extra. However, kbd seems to be much better maintained (current uploads happening, while…