Archive for September, 2009
Free software improvements
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Two things that have been annoying me for a long time have been fixed recently, and I discovered those two new features the same day (rainy week-ends are good for you). OpenSSH’s problem with networks with large bandwidth-delay product has been fixed in OpenSSH 5.1. The problem was that OpenSSH has its own windowing system [...]
Bootstrapping Centos or Fedora from Debian or Ubuntu
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Here are some notes about bootstrapping a Centos or Fedora chroot from Debian. It should also work from Ubuntu with minor changes, but I haven’t checked. The following should really be done in a chroot, since some commands will install files in your /etc or elsewhere, ignoring the –installroot passed to yum. The following instructions [...]
Managing your PTS subscriptions
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Subscribing to packages on the PTS is really useful to stay informed of everything happening with those packages. Unfortunately, managing your PTS subscriptions is really a challenge. Here is how I proceed to subscribe to packages I forgot to subscribe after uploading them: To get the list of your subscriptions, connect to master.d.o, and run [...]