Category Archives: Gentoo

etc-proposals-1.4.2

After being mentioned in the first GMN (Gentoo Monthly Newsletter) ever, here’s another update: etc-proposals 1.4.2 has just been released (and version bumped), find out more about etc-proposals on its website :)

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etc-proposals-1.4.1 and cyrus-imapd-2.3.11

Just a few hours after I added etc-proposals to the tree, a bug with initializing the internal DB was discovered and reported. After adding upstream dev Bjoern Michaelsen to that bugreport a fixed 1.4.1 was released within a couple of … Continue reading

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app-portage/etc-proposals

etc-proposals just made in our beloved tree this morning, probably being the first addition in 2008. I first came across this little nifty program which allows for easy graphical diffing between configfile changes (i.e. etc-update w/ GUI) around christmas and … Continue reading

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planet.gentoo.de?

As Steve mentioned support for other languages than English got dropped from Planet Larry. For those of you who are still interested in having a German feed aggregation, I’d like to offer to setup planet.gentoo.de! But before setting this up … Continue reading

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wth is IMSP and is anyone out there using cyrus-imspd?

This afternoon Christian and Jakub were discussing the “future” of cyrus-imspd on #gentoo-dev, i.e. is it worth fixing it or is it a candidate for another last rite? As the maintainer of other cyrus packages (i.e. cyrus-imapd and cyrus-imap-admin) i … Continue reading

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Nagios 3.0b4 ebuilds and nagios-plugins 1.4.10

I finally managed to put some Nagios 3.0b4 ebuilds together and committed them to my personal dev-overlay on friday. Besides supporting the latest bleeding-edge Nagios I added support for another webserver, lighttpd aka lighty – thanks to Tiziano Müller for … Continue reading

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Back from a weekend in Kopenhagen

Like mentioned in the last update of my little “tour-calendar” just some days ago, I spent the last weekend in Kopenhagen visiting Corny (and some other now-former-Gentoo Developers). Instead of my favourite airline Lufthansa I booked Skandinavian Airlines this time, … Continue reading

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Finally!

Gentoo Linux – Die Metadistribution, the book I wrote, should be available in book stores soon – today I received my first three copies. Seeing this as the final ending of months of hard work I spent on writing that … Continue reading

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Rivendell – broadcast automation software

Yesterday I came across a quite nice (read: GPL’d) broadcast automation software: Rivendell. As some people in the forums already tried Rivendell and the Wiki explains how to install Rivendell from CVS on Gentoo boxes I started to put some … Continue reading

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Little PPC bugfixing spree …

Somehow I was in the mood of starting a little bugfixing spree on Friday after I got home from work. From more than 100 hundert PPC-Bugs we’re now down to less than 30. Nearly all keywording bugs are fixed for … Continue reading

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