X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/45cdf7a9e530d1c9de466f05cc1d9e09de3e9a55..2222b721e6d31a10c3df51bc060b7de177a56f70:/blog/archive/2014/02/02.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2014/02/02.rss b/blog/archive/2014/02/02.rss index 8996bd8f82..bd78f4060f 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2014/02/02.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2014/02/02.rss @@ -6,6 +6,38 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils) + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_home_and_release_1_0_for_netgroup_and_innetgr__aka_ng_utils_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_home_and_release_1_0_for_netgroup_and_innetgr__aka_ng_utils_.html + Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:40:00 +0100 + <p>Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and +innetgr tools, because I needed them in +<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. I called the project +ng-utils, and it has served me well. I placed the project under the +<a href="http://www.hungry.com/">Hungry Programmer</a> umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS +repository. But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost, +not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a +proper home since then.</p> + +<p>Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release +fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in +a proper source control system. I applied for a project on +<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a>, but did not have time +to follow up on it. Until today. :)</p> + +<p>After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project +now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the +history of the project. I published all release tarballs and imported +them into the git repository. As the project is really stable and not +expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new +release and call it 1.0. Visit the new project home on +<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/">https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/</a> +if you want to check it out. The new version is also uploaded into +Debian Unstable.</p> + + + Testing sysvinit from experimental in Debian Hurd http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html @@ -29,7 +61,7 @@ commands as root to get the machine to accept a IP address from the kvm internal DHCP server:</p> <p><blockquote><pre> -settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde +settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[p]finet/ { print $2}') kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[d]evnode/ { print $2}') dhclient /dev/eth0 @@ -55,7 +87,7 @@ EOF apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install -t experimental initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit \ - sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils + sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils update-alternatives --config runsystem </pre></blockquote></p>