Posts Tagged ‘Debian’
A while back mdz blogged about challenges facing Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. He raises the point that runtime libraries for Python / Ruby etc have a unique set of issues because they tend to have their own packaging systems. Merely a month later he attended Debconf 2010 where a presentation was given on the […]
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Tags: clojure, Debian, eggs, lein, node.js, npm, packaging, Python, ruby, upstream
While some folk look down on fakeraid (that is BIOS based RAID-until-OS-takes-over) solutions, I think they are pretty neat: they let a user get many of the benefits of dedicated controller cards at a fraction of the cost. The benefits include the usual ones for RAID – more spindles to handle IO, tolerance of disk […]
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Tags: Debian, dmraid, ubuntu
Debianising with bzr-builddeb
Bzr build-deb is very nice, but it can be very tricky to get started. I recently did a fresh debianisation of a project that is in bzr upstream, and I thought I’d record the recipe to make it work (at least until the various bugs making it hard re fixed). Assuming that the upstream uses […]
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Tags: Debian, packaging, ubuntu
Packaging backlog
Got some of my packaging backlog sorted out: bicyclerepairman updated for the vim policy (which means it works again!) python-testtools (a simple migration of the package to Debian) subunit 0.0.2 released upstream and packaged for Debian. testresources 0.2 -> Debian. python-junitxml packaged up. And a small memo-to-self: On all new machines, echo ” filetype plugin […]
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Tags: Debian, Python, testsupport
