Preview of switchconf 0.0.15-1
Since the last version 0.0.9 on Debian, I have made some changes until version 0.0.14. The version 0.0.15 is only to include a fix for the new findutils. I thank you to Andreas Metzler for the fix and...
View ArticlePreview of amanda 3.3.8-1
While I sort out a sponsor, my sponsor is very busy, here is a preview of the new packages. So anyone can install and test them on jessie. The source of the packages is in collab-maint.The debs files...
View ArticleA Selection of Talks from FOSDEM 2016
It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks are very good, with good presentations and contents. It's...
View ArticlePreview of amanda 3.3.8-1, second try.
I found a bug in amanda-3.3.8 that was quickly fixed by upstream. Please upgrade to this version. The updates will go to collab-maint.The debs files for jessie are here:...
View Articleat daemon, now with proper support for --without-selinux
Thanks to Wenzong Fan, now the configure flag --without-selinux works properly. So here is a new release at 3.1.19. Please test it.
View Articleat daemon 3.1.20, with 3 fixes
From the Debian BUG system I incorporated 3 fixes. One of them is experimental. It fixes a broken code but may have side effects. Please test it. New release 3.1.20: * Add option b to getopt, (Closes:...
View ArticleEnabling Wifi QCA9377 on a Asus E200HA
I bought a new laptop E200HA, because my previous was a MacBook and It broke after a fall into the ground. I let it boot first in Win10 to check if everything was OK and because I could not found the...
View ArticleAvailabilty of at at the Major Linux Distributions
In this blog post I will cover what versions of software at is used by the leading Linux Distributions as reported by LWN. Andoid - Unknown Debian - 3.1.20 Fedora - 3.1.20 OpenSUSE - 3.1.15 Red Hat...
View ArticleNew packages for Amanda on the works
Because of the upgrade of perl, amanda is currently broken on testing and unstable on Debian. The problem is known and I am working with my sponsor to create new packages to solve the problem. Please...
View ArticleCrossgrading the kernel in Debian 9
I have a very old installation of 32bits Debian running in new hardware. Until now running a 64bits kernel was enough to use efficiently more than 4GiB of RAM. The only problem I found was the...
View ArticleCrossgrading a minimal install of Debian 9
By testing the previous instructions for a full crosgrade I run into trouble. Here is the results of my tests to do a full crossgrade of a minimal installation of Debian inside a VM. First you need to...
View ArticleCrossgrading a more typical server in Debian9
First you need to install a 64bits kernel and boot with it. See my previous post on how to do it. Second you need to do a bootstrap of crossgrading: apt-get clean apt-get upgrade apt-get...
View ArticleCrossgrading a complex Desktop and Debian Developer machine running Debian 9
This article is an experiment in progress, please recheck, while I am updating with the new information. I have a very old installation of Debian, possibly since v2, dot not remember, that I have...
View ArticleCrossgrading a complex Desktop and Debian Developer machine running Debian 9,...
After sometime without looking into this problem, I decided to do another try. I do not found a way to do a complex crossgrade of my desktop without massively removing packages. And there are bug and...
View ArticleAdd a PGP subkey to Yubikey 4
I have a Yubikey from the job and wanted to start signing git commit without copying my Debian PGP key to the work computer. No, I did not want to create a second class PGP key just for the work. Here...
View ArticleA non official backport of amanda 3.5.1 for Debian stretch
I have checked the conditions for an official backport of amanda in Debian, but I think there is not demand enough. I have made an non official backport of amanda 3.5.1 for Debian stretch amd64...
View Articleat daemon 3.1.23, with some fixes and now a signature
This is the public announcement of release 3.1.23. I have made some non public releases of at daemon for internal development of the Debian package, since 3.1.20. This fixes some reported bugs and the...
View ArticleA Selection of talks from DebConf 2018
This is my selection of talks from DebConf18. Open Day Opening Ceremony Debian Meets Smart City Applications Panel Discussion: Story of Debian contributors around the world Opening Ceremony Software...
View ArticleNew release of switchconf 0.0.16
I have not touched switchconf for a long time. Being at DebCamp19 was a good time to work on it. I have moved the development of switchconf from a private svn repo to a git repo in salsa:...
View Articleat daemon 3.2.0
There is a new version of at daemon, 3.2.0. It was implemented some new features, so the bump on the minor version. You can download the source and the signature from http://software.calhariz.com/at/...
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