November 25th, 2008
Manage a repository seems simple, but is not. It takes a long time.
For this we, deelab’s boys, started to write a tool to keep simple the management of repositories; this is Repoman.
With Repoman you can add, remove or upgrade packages of your repository by running a single command script.
The software download the tarball directly from AUR, then extract files, build the package, insert/delete it into the repository’s database and add a line in ChangeLog file who keep trace of the actions made on your repository.
Obviously it can be found on AUR ;)
Some screens:
Tags: archlinux, repoman, software
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November 25th, 2008
When I’m traveling or when I’m in university, sometime, I work. So I need the documentation of the language in which I’m developing, but I haven’t Internet connection and so I have to give up or use an old copy of the docs that I had saved some months ago.
This is no longer a problem. I discovered the -docs packages. They are in community and unsupported. Through -docs packages, you can always have an updated version of the docs stored on disk (are installed in /usr/share/doc/).
For example, I’m using:
$ pacman -Qqs docs
bash-docs
css-docs
gcc-docs
gtk2-docs
html-docs
mysql-docs
python-docs
xhtml-docs
Enjoy ;)
Tags: archlinux, tips
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November 13th, 2008
Da qualche giorno M$ ha cambiato Windows Live Hotmail, ora ha un’interfaccia nuova, bla bla bla le solite cose…
Bene, questa nuova interfaccia fa un controllo sul browser che state utilizzando: se non usate Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera non potete scrivere/inviare nuove mail.
Tutte le distribuzioni GNU/Linux, o meglio, tutte le distribuzioni GNU/Linux che ricompilano Firefox da sorgenti devono cambiare il nome del browser con uno a loro scelta. Il controllo di M$ legge il valore della chiave general.useragent.extra.firefox che su Arch Linux assume il valore GranParadiso/3.0.3 essendo questo il nome scelto dai DEV.
Per poter tornare ad inviare mail dovremo cambiare il valore della chiave in Firefox/3.0.3.
In realtà non so perchè scrivo questo post…è un’ottima occasione per far passare tutti ad altri servizi di posta elettronica come GMail, Yahoo…
Tags: archlinux-it, howto, tips
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