Robert James Clay

Create TinyTIC generic-linux branch

2011-12-08T20:55:52Z

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.

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cd ~/prj/tinytic/scm/sfgit
git config --add svn-remote.generic-linux.url https://ftnapps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ftnapps/tinytic/branches/generic-linux/
git config --add svn-remote.generic-linux.fetch :refs/remotes/generic-linux
git svn fetch generic-linux
git checkout -b svn/generic-linux -t generic-linux
git svn rebase generic-linux

Registered the domain bbbs.info

2011-12-07T03:16:51Z

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

My New GPG Key

2011-12-02T15:31:09Z

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
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

2011-11-17T16:40:29Z

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

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

reprepro bug for format v3 (quilt) debian packages

2011-10-22T21:10:35Z

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

2011-07-31T21:49:15Z

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 ...

2011-07-27T16:50:35Z

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

Timestamp corrections in GIT

2011-07-18T01:49:51Z

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

]]> #!/bin/sh # # Rewrite all branches to modify the date of one specific commit in a repo. # # Sample date format: Fri Jan 2 21:38:53 2009 -0800 # ISO8601 and RFC822 dates will also work. # # Note: filter-branch is picky about the commit argument. As of 1.7.0.4, # a hex ID will work, the symbolic revision HEAD will fail silently, # and the usability of more exotic rev specs was not tested by the author. # # Copyright (c) Eric S. Raymond, 2010-08-01. BSD terms apply (if anybody really thinks that this # script is long and non-obvious enough to fall under copyright law). # commit="$1" date="$2" git filter-branch --env-filter \ "if test \$GIT_COMMIT = '$commit' then export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='$date' GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='$date' fi" && rm -fr "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/refs/original/"

FTNPL project at GitHub

2011-07-11T19:02:40Z

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

Website: http://ftnpl.github.com
Project: https://github.com/ftnpl

Migrate BBBS htdocs from bzr to git

2011-07-09T20:19:18Z

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.

Lintian pbuilder hook example

2011-07-08T13:43:58Z

An example of a Lintian pbuilder hook was posted to the Debian Mentors mailing list in a thread about getting people to run Lintian .

Message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/07/msg00180.html
Thread Index: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/07/threads.html#00180

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$ cat ~/.pbuilder-hooks/B20lintian
#!/bin/bash
#
# run lintian on generated deb files
echo "########  STARTING LINTIAN HOOK  ########"
apt-get install -y --force-yes lintian
lintian -iIEm --pedantic --color=auto --allow-root /tmp/buildd/*.deb
echo "########  FINISHED LINTIAN HOOK  ########"

BBBSDEB project at GitHub

2011-07-07T18:00:39Z

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

Website: https://github.com/bbbsdeb
Moved the repository for the Debian BBBS Packaging there.
Moved the repository for the bconfhtm.pl script there.
Moved the repository for the mrtgbbbs.pl script there.

ttylog v0.1.d-1 migrated to Debian testing.

2011-07-07T03:26:44Z

My ttylog package v0.1.d-1 has migrated into the Debian Testing distribution (wheezy).

Issues with Busybox LXC on Debian v6?

2011-07-06T17:49:23Z

I've moved the active 'Linux VServers' I had running over to 'Linux Containers' (LXC). Have also been doing some experimentation.

Tried setting up a busybox container but had problems.

]]> 11:45 - cobweb is i686 system; why is the container being configured with
the "/lib64" mount?

root@cobweb:/usr/lib/lxc/templates# lxc-start -n bsybx
lxc-start: No such file or directory - failed to mount '/lib64' on '/var/lib/lxc/bsybx/rootfs/lib6
4'
lxc-start: failed to setup the mount entries for 'bsybx'
lxc-start: failed to setup the container
lxc-start: invalid sequence number 1. expected 2
lxc-start: failed to spawn 'bsybx'

    -> commented out the following two lines in the created bsybx config
#lxc.mount.entry=/lib64 /var/lib/lxc/bsybx/rootfs/lib64 none ro,bind 0 0
#lxc.mount.entry=/usr/lib64 /var/lib/lxc/bsybx/rootfs/usr/lib64 none ro,bind 0 0

    -> that allows it to boot but so far it just tries sending out discover:

root@cobweb:~# lxc-start -n bsybx
init started: BusyBox v1.17.1 (Debian 1:1.17.1-8)
starting pid 2, tty '': '/etc/init.d/rcS'
udhcpc (v1.17.1) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...

    -> wouldn't be an issue if the container has a static IP.(still need to
    figure how to do that in an lxc container)

root@cobweb:~# aptitude search udhcpc
p   udhcpc                    - Provides the busybox DHCP client implementation
root@cobweb:~# aptitude install udhcpc

    - but that may not entirely help as it still needs to be configured for
    actual use?

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12:38 - commented out the "udhcpc" line in etc/rcS

    -> that goes further but there are still problems:
root@cobweb:~# lxc-start -n bsybx
init started: BusyBox v1.17.1 (Debian 1:1.17.1-8)
starting pid 2, tty '': '/etc/init.d/rcS'
starting pid 6, tty '': '/bin/getty -L tty1 115200 vt100'

Please press Enter to activate this console.
starting pid 7, tty '': '/bin/sh'

BusyBox v1.17.1 (Debian 1:1.17.1-8) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

-> ran lxc-stop -n bsybx

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lxc-start -n bsybx -d
lxc-console -n bsybx -d

-> that does come up with a login prompt but it doesn't go anywhere

-> checked & the login cmd shows as being present but found the following
note at http://www.landley.net/lxc/01-setup.html

"Unfortunately, the default busybox binary in Debian squeeze is insufficient.
The busybox package doesn't include the "init" command, and the busybox-static package doesn't have "login".

So will need to do some research on this.

mbsebbs-0.92.00+110522-1~1 Test Build

2011-07-01T22:34:28Z

Manually removed the patch (debian/patches/10_fix-flock-error.patch) altogether. Was then able to do a successful binary only test build for 64 bit, as mbsebbs-0.92.0+110522-1~1.

The code has changed but still need to verify if the issue was fixed for Ubuntu installs or if the patch needs to be updated.

Manually installed that deb using dpkg to a new LXC server successfully and am now testing it there.