In order to create a TinyTIC generic-linux branch, did an svn copy from revision 69 to tinytic/branch/generic-linux.   Then created a remote branch for git-svn to use.
 

Registered the domain bbbs.info

Registered the bbbs.info domain and created the initial DNS configuration for it.

My New GPG Key

Created a new 4096 GPG key. 

pub   4096R/43B7EA9A 2011-12-02
      Key fingerprint = 2448 3AE0 874D 8696 6DCD  ECF4 198C AB6F 43B7 EA9A
uid                  Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us>
sub   4096R/D7FAF0E5 2011-12-02

Signed it with my old existing key and sent it to the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.

Reference also:
  • http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg00003.html
  • http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html
  • http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/

Accepted into Debian Perl Team

Requested and was accepted in to the Debian Perl Team, reference also:

  • http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2011/11/msg00061.html



The following warning came up when using reprepro on a Debian v7 system to install a v3 (quilt) formatted package:

  • dpkg-source: warning: -sn is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::quilt

Did find a bug for a similar issue in sbuild, #583337, but not yet one specifically for reprepro.

SQL C prgramming libraries

Programming libaries like Perl DBI but for C.

Tntdb Tntdb is a c++-class-library for easy database-access. It implements a simple database independent layer, which loads drivers at runtime. Currently drivers for postgresql, sqlite3, mysql and oracle are provided.

Home page:  http://www.tntnet.org/tntdb.html
Debian:  http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libtntdb1


Comments Spam ...

It appears that the comments spammers have found my site, so I am turning off comments for all entries...

Timestamp corrections in GIT


Reference:

  •   http://www.alexpeattie.com/blog/working-with-dates-in-git/

 which in turn references

  •  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_can_I_tweak_the_date_of_a_commit_in_the_repo.3F

FTNPL project at GitHub

Created ftnpl project (i.e., Organization) at GitHub:


I have had been tracking the static pages etc in the BBBS htdocs directory associated with my BBBS install using BZR.  I have primarily changed over to using GIT now but hadn't had a chance to convert that repository until today.  ( Note that this is being done on a Debian v6 system.)

I first tried using tailor to do the migration, as that has worked for me before.  This time, however, it failed with an error message about not being able to rename one of the files for one of the changesets.  I made sure that the repository format was upgraded and tried again but it still failed in the same way. 

Found the following article, which pointed me to a successful way ot doing the migration:
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/foreign/bzr-on-git-projects.html

Ran the following command lines, with "old-htdocs" being the bzr repository is and "htdocs" being where the new git repostiory is going :

md htdocs

cd htdocs

git init

cd ../old-htdocs

bzr fast-export --htdocs=../htdocs.bzr --git-branch=BBBS-htdocs ../old-htdocs | git fast-import --import-marks=../htdocs.git --export-marks=../htdocs.git

That resulted in the branch BBBS-htdocs being imported in to the new htdocs git repository.