Out of laziness, like many, I use WordPress for this blog. I did try others, but was disappointed (after my blog got hacked a few times), so I just use that. WordPress has a long history of security issues. So upstream decided to preform automatic updates. This would have been a good thing if … […]
February 15, 2014 – 3:12 pm
This is the 2nd point release of OpenStack Havana (this is the name of the current stable release of OpenStack). It was out on Thursday (US time), and I uploaded it on Friday (Chinese time). Unfortunately, I realized that the latest python-keystoneclient didn’t support the –token and –endpoint command line options, effectively breaking Keystone itself, […]
February 9, 2014 – 6:43 am
This is sad, but no choice, due to the lack of upstream support: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738322 I just hope xenserver-core will work soon in Debian, so we can fix this unfortunate situation.
January 5, 2014 – 8:17 am
I thought it would have been smooth, though it wasn’t. OpenRC shipped /sbin/rc, which conflicted with the “rc” shell (an implementation of the AT&T Plan 9 shell), and /sbin/runscript was conflicting with minicom. With the help of upstream authors, /sbin/rc was renamed /sbin/openrc, and /sbin/runscript was renamed /sbin/openrc-run. However, the main goal is reached: after […]
November 10, 2013 – 11:57 am
Peter Reinholdtsen posted an article on planet.debian.org about symplifying init scripts. I don’t think that’s a good idea. I tried to do that, and then scrapped all my code, because I’ve found OpenRC that was doing what I wrote, in a much better way. We shouldn’t reivent the wheel, OpenRC is there already!
October 31, 2013 – 2:41 am
The point of switching to a new init system is to get rid of huge init scripts. Well, here’s an example OpenRC runscript, rewriting /etc/init.d/rsyslog: #!/sbin/runscript command=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd name=”enhanced syslogd” depend() { provide rsyslogd syslog need $remote_fs $time } Pretty minimalistic to me… For the record, the original sysv-rc script was 126 lines, and the above […]
October 30, 2013 – 7:56 am
I have always pretended that OpenRC would be very easy to port to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Well, now I stop pretending: http://youtu.be/zoNoi8BgQjs This was done within a few hours working with upstream. Now, next-up: Debian GNU/Hurd. Hoping that porters will volunteer to do the work.
October 17, 2013 – 6:30 pm
OpenStack “upstream” was released today. Thanks to the release team and a big up to TTX for his work. By the time you read this, probably all of my uploads have reached your local Debian mirror. Please try Havana using either Sid from any Debian mirror, or using the Wheezy backports available here: deb http://havana.pkgs.enovance.com/debian […]
October 12, 2013 – 2:36 pm
After upgrading my Sid virtual machine hosting my Jenkins, build after git push stopped working. This is because version 1.503 and above require an auth token for triggering the build. Since it took me some time to search the web, I’ve decided to blog about it to save time to other Jenkins users. Under each […]
October 8, 2013 – 5:06 pm
Announcement After a very long work, over the course of 4 months, I have finished packaging the first RC1 of OpenStack. This comes on time, just 9 days before the official Havana release. Please do try this RC1 before the official 2013.2, code name Havana, is released, and hopefully uploaded to Debian. All of the […]