Weblog Archives for April 2005

Catch up on all the blog entries you missed.

April 28: The topic, the topic, what topic? (Seemant); See, here's the thing Donnie, I think the planet should honestly make available all the blogs from a dev who chooses to be on it. I think it's a silly rule to have it be only on-topic. What is on-topic really? I mean, just because you don't say (in ...; Read the full post; Xterm and Ryan Seacrest (Seemant); So, I made a HUGE mistake the other day when I put xterm-201 into portage. First of all, I hate when people do the straight to stable thing on architectures they know nothing about. So, that means I hate myself this time around. The other thing is -- ...; Read the full post; Samba cleanups (Seemant); So, it seems like there's a general convergence in the ether, because for the past few weeks I've been sending emails back and forth to our samba team, about the messy samba ebuilds in portage. Meanwhile, both slarti and beu noticed the messiness and talked about it. So, trying ...; Read the full post; Even More -messy -foptimizations (Seemant); So, now there's bug 90663 which shows a user clearly using compilation flags gleaned from some 1337 ch4nn31 on some freaky irc network somewhere. People, if you're going to be filing bugs, please at least tone down your cflags before you do. Bug reports like this are a waste ...; Read the full post

April 19: Happy Birthday, Sindhuja (Seemant); Yeah, that's my baby sister, she turns 25 today. So, bunch of things. The whole co-habiting of kerberi is abandoned. There was a stunning lack of feedback as to motivation and method, so they'll remain blocking. However, they will be cleaned up. I will make sure to at least make ...; Read the full post

April 12: /usr/libexec/wild/goose.chase (Seemant); OK, so here's an update to the whole heimdal/mit crisis. I sent an email to gentoo-dev mailing list soliciting opinions on two options, which I shall outline below. There is no link to the email because the mailq on the gentoo mail server is apparently backed up. I'll update this ...; Read the full post; dnsmasq is the bee's knees (Seemant); Donnie, I've been using dnsmasq for a year now, ever since Ciaran mentioned it to me in #gentoo-sparc and it has taken its place in my top 5 favourite pieces of software. I don't know that I would ever choose to use anything else. Granted, I ...; Read the full post

April 11: Heimdal update not in portage (Seemant); OK, so as promised I started working on heimdal's new ebuilds for the whole relocation-no-stomping routine that you've been doubtless on the edge of your seat about. And I hit a snag. Not a snag, as much as an annoyance. The autotools provide this really nice configure flag that you ...; Read the full post; Retiring your developer cloak (Seemant); What is it with Gentoo Developers leaving lately? Two people, scandium and chriswhite, have left in the last two weeks. Ordinarily, I'm used to the turn over in Gentoo development, but honestly not being on the -core list since January (until my dev boxes arrive here, don't get alarmed), I ...; Read the full post

April 8: mit-krb5 is settled (Seemant); OK, so here's a nice update. I finally settled the installation scheme for mit-krb5, effective from 1.4 onwards. I'm working on the kerberos-update script (not kerberos-config anymore) to install proper symlinks, but that won't be finished till the weekend. Does anyone here actually use krb4 themselves? If so, what stuff ...; Read the full post

April 7: MIT-krb5 making progress (Seemant); OK, so here's an update. I put mit-krb5-1.4 into portage (and took out a whooooooooooooole bunch of cruft while I was in there). Now, this is important, so it's in bold: DO NOT EMERGE IT YET!!! Here's what's happening with it so far: Most of the utils (the telnet client/server ...; Read the full post

April 3: Sheesh with the time (Seemant); Right, so this coming week is finally going to see the results of my frustrations with the kerberi. My apologies to those who have been tuning in with hopes of seeing some movement. I'm sorry, but there simply hasn't been any. The next weekish will finally see some ebb in ...; Read the full post