Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS [http://blog.waja.info/2006/06/27/we-got-some-linksys-wrtsl54gs-imported-from-us/] to OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 0.9 with X-WRT [http://www.x-wrt.org] 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it,…
Yesterday the release manager Andreas 'aba' Barth announced: > Etch is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!! [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg00004.html] This means, that "all packages now need to be hand-approved in order to go to testing". So policyd-weight [http://packages.qa.debian.org/…
Ganneff did a lot work and flushed NEW nearly complete. Now asused, dns-flood-detector, php5-tidy, policyd-weight and ps-watcher got into unstable. php-suhosin, which is co-maintained by me got also in.…
Today I lost accidentally all my debian packages on our ftp server [ftp://ftp.cyconet.org]. This was a point where I thought, it may be a good idea to setup a working repository. So I backported reprepro [http://packages.debian.org/reprepro] and installed it. Some scripts by side…
Since I was building already a couple packages for bpo [http://backports.org] I was thinking, it may a good idea to start packaging some of my most common tools for Debian GNU/Linux [http://www.debian.org]. You may think its bad timing, but better late than never! So…
If you need to wipe all traces for some objects in your svn repository, you can do something like this: # svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH | svndumpfilter \ <include|exclude> $string | \ svnadmin load REPOS_PATH_NEW # mv REPOS_PATH REPOS_PATH_backup && REPOS_PATH_NEW \ REPOS_PATH ``` …
Today I discovered 'ntfsclone' which is included in debian in the 'ntfsprogs' package. For example if you wanna try to backup your /dev/hda3 to a remote host: foobar:~ # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /edv/hda3 | \ ssh $remotehost '( cat > xp.img )' remotehost:~ # cat xp.…
Since a long time we need php5 with tidy and PDO. Until last week we was using: > deb http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5.1 sarge But it stalled at 5.1.4 So we did need a solution how to get a recent and maintained php5 package. There…