Again, dated material (June 2010) but some people may find it interesting…
Gentoo developer amne made it into the Das war der Linuxtag 2010 video.
Seek to 17:18 if you’re in a hurry.
While this is dated material (June 2010) some people may find it interesting…
Four of four days we took the opportunity to brief visitors of LinuxTag 2010 about Gentoo under the umbrella of Projects fast forward: a serious of lighting talks – 2 minutes, 2 slides per project. Florian Streibelt did great at this. By now [...]
Without further ado… the change log:
Fixed: Catch keyboard interrupts (Ctrl+C) while running child processes properly
Fixed: doctest error in tar overlay code (bug #327491)
Thanks to David Abbott for reporting!
Simplified, Layman’s main job is to make calls to version control utilities. A larger portion of that invocation code has been rewritten: no more os.system(), no more shell interpretation in between. Here’s the change log since 1.3.4:
Handle command line calls “layman” and “layman foo” better. Former now shows a usage summary while latter now reports [...]
By now my voice has almost recovered: I’m looking back on four days of non-stop explaining USE flags, summarizing a Gentoo installation, selling 28 shirts in total, coordinating this and that: LinuxTag 2010 Berlin/Germany is over. All kinds of visitors accepted flyers — we were rather proactive on distributing them — and asked questions: [...]
The mail below reached the PR team today. I felt like sharing it with you.
Dear Gentoo Team,
As a Linux user for the past 5 years, I’ve been messing around with running Linux as a server and desktop at home, as I have always appreciated what is in my opinion a superior outlook on computing by [...]
I had a few minutes time to finally fix funtoo-ripper, the tool extracting Funtoo-only ebuilds from Daniel’s Funtoo tree into a dedicated overlay: pure-funtoo. Syncing has been disabled for quite some time due to errors I didn’t have time to fix previously. Should be running smoothly now.
First of all thanks to everyone participating in this bumpday!
In this report:
Quick summary
Bump count per person
Packages by person
Packages bumped
Quick summary
First place goes to chainsaw with 6 bumps.
Second place goes to tove with 5 bumps.
Third place goes to arfrever with 4 bumps.
34 packages have been bumped in total.
This analysis is referring to bumpday 2010-04-17.
Bump count per [...]
Your Gentoo overlay hosted on Gentoo machines like this one – wouldn’t that be sexy?
Just send a mail to overlays@gentoo.org providing
Overlay Name (matching “^user/[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*$”)
An extra-short description
Owner name and e-mail (that’s you)
SSH pubkey you’ll be pushing with
That’s it. Once you’re running we can get you into the layman registry, too.
Intro
Besides writing ebuilds itself being a Gentoo developer is about quite a few other things: it’s never just configure-make-make-install. It’s actually true not only for Gentoo but for other distros, too. Read on.
So what is it?
So if you are still wondering what distro developers (sometimes called “packagers”) are doing I can recommend watching How to [...]
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