Step one: building OpenRC, and force it with a big hammer to replace sysv-rc. A few minutes later, with even more hacks, we have a more decent boot process which uses Gentoo boot scripts (amazingly, most of them do work out of the box!): Notice the udev script, which is hacked from the Debian sysv-rc, […]
This post is just a status update for the Openstack packaging, after the next version froze last week. The Openstack bi-annual summit of next April will take place this year in Portland, Oregon, and if everything goes as plan, Grizzly will be released just before the summit. Grizzly will be out a bit before the […]
February 6, 2013 – 3:48 pm
It’s been a long time I wanted to blog about my recent work on the Openstack packaging. I finally can find a bit of time to do it. For those who don’t know yet Openstack, it’s a fairly recent (less than 3 years) cloud computing suite, which is becoming quite huge. If you plan on deploying […]
August 22, 2012 – 7:38 am
IT’S FINALLY IN! With this last upload of the MiniUPnP daemon 1.7-3, I’ve reached a first milestone: all of the MiniUPnP libraries, daemons and clients are finally in Debian, in a shape which I am not ashamed anymore. What is UPnP for? Back in the days (around Linux 2.0.3x), the only way to share a […]
August 16, 2012 – 4:28 pm
We were nearly 20 people from the Shanghai Linux User Group this evening, at JA cafe (near JinAn temple), celebrating Debian’s 19th birthday. As the only DD present at that event (Li Daobing was busy somewhere else), I was honored by my friends to be the one cutting the cake. Above the (very nice) cake […]
MLMMJ stands for Mailing List Manager Made Joyful. To me, it’s the best mailing list manager available. Not only its written in C (no slow interpreted language here…), but also it is easy and very convenient to setup. No hack is needed to make it run on a multi-domain environment, and no need to run […]
PHPUnit, according to its PTS, has been in Debian since 2009. But it was orphaned, and nobody took care of it for a while. That is until few weeks ago, Luis Uribe started to work on it. Since he isn’t a DD, and that I take care of, I believe, about half of the all […]
February 1, 2012 – 12:55 am
Over the years, I’ve always uploaded my local git repo (git clone –bare myrep repo.git) as a tarball, which I then uncompress. But I’ve been tired of doing that by hand, so I wrote a tiny shell script for it. Nothing fancy. You just do: alioth-new-git openstack then it uploads your current repo to Alioth […]