When working on (the still on-going) migration of the Gentoo java project repositories from SVN to Git I ran into bugs with svn2git 1.0.8 and my own svneverever 1.2.1. The bug with svn2git 1.0.8 was a regression that broke support for (non-ASCII) UTF-8 author names in identity maps. That’s fixed in dev-vcs/svn2git-1.0.8-r1 in Gentoo. I [...]
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If you are running Gentoo, heard about the release of the LightZone source code and got curious to see it for yourself: sudo layman -a betagarden sudo emerge -av media-gfx/LightZone What you get is LightZone 100% built from sources, no more shipped .jar files included. One word of warning: the software has not seen much [...]
In this post I am going to present a quick guide to set up a basic environment to test and develop GRUB 2 themes on Gentoo Linux. Its core feature is the use of virtualization so you restart virtual hardware rather than physical one. Ingredients: KVM (or QEMU) — i.e. package app-emulation/qemu-kvm or app-emulation/qemu GNU [...]
It has been on my personal todo list for a while to remake the background of the “gentoo-cow” GDM 2.x theme in vector format. So I took some time to work on that today. The result is an SVG file and a bunch of PNG renderings (in many resolutions, ratios 4:3, 5:4, 8:5 and 16:9), [...]
For quite some time I have been using Meld to detect relevant changes between two releases when I update a package in Gentoo. I run # ebuild foobar-1.2.ebuild manifest prepare # ebuild foobar-1.3.ebuild manifest prepare and throw Meld at both outputs # meld /var/tmp/portage/[..]/foobar-1.2/work/foobar-1.2/ \ /var/tmp/portage/[..]/foobar-1.3/work/foobar-1.3/ & Meld makes it easy to see what has [...]
While repoman does a good job of finding smells in ebuilds, a tool to evaluate an overlay with respect to the state of the Gentoo main tree has to my knowledge been missing so far. overlint is a simple command line tool. From a technical view point it reports which version bumps from the overlay [...]
I recently noticed 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale from languages that I never configured. So I turned to the gentoo-user mailing list and got a detailed reply by Mike Edenfield (quoted below) a hint on app-admin/localepurge by walt/w41ter As I liked the explanation by Mike, I asked for permission to quote it as CC-BY-SA/3.0 here, which [...]
The latest system update pulled GDM 3.2.x into my ~amd64 Gentoo system. While GDM 2.x felt just right, GDM 3.x is not my thing at all. To bring back GDM 2.x I added these masks >=gnome-base/gdm-3 >=gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3 >=gnome-base/libgnomekbd-3 >=net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth-3 >=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3 and re-emerged the latest 2.x versions of these packages. Works.
Some time after a world update I noticed that XFCE’s desktop settings no longer listed SVG wallpapers from x11-themes/larry-backgrounds. Also, the XFCE menu was lacking icons for Blender 2.5x. sudo revdep-rebuild didn’t seem to help. Some digging in the code of xfdesktop quickly revealed that the loader of gdk-pixbuf didn’t like loading SVGs anymore. For [...]
