I don’t like very much to speak about politics on my blog but I don’t manage to keep myslef silent when 55.4% of the french people voted for a pessimistic option: the Non.
That’s a shame, I must say that I totally agree with Christian, we failed.
Moreover, I really feel this Non like a xenophobic word, making me ashamed of my country quite the same way as when Le Pen passed the first election tour in 2002.
That’s so bad…
I decieded to give a try at the famous Linunx Vserver project, with the idea to set up a couple of virtual boxes dedicated to test my packages.
For those who don’t know it, vserver comes with a kernel patch (the context patch) and a set of tools. The idea is to mix chroot for the filesystem, chbind for the ethernet interfaces and chcontext for the processes. You get then a virtual server that uses the real kernel, thus without any loss of performance.
As we can create a new vserver with debootstrap, it’s a charme to work with it. I now have one vserver for each Debian distribution and use them for testing my packages. That’s really better than using your desktop box and is cheaper than using real boxes.
Moreover it’s really perfect for testing upgrades, as you can imagine.
Nice, I have now a working SVN repository for handling the backup-manager packages. That’s great, I’ll do the same as I did for bugzilla: one branch for each upstream version packaged, and one tag for each package released.
That lets you grab whatever package you want from the SVN repository and keeps one working directory for each major release.
The thread about managing web applications in Debian lead to create a mailing list : debian-webapps.
I’m happy to see that something is being done to enhance the way we package webapps. Webapp maintainers are welcome on this list. Our first aim is to gather ideas and opinions about common webapps specific issues. We’ll then start writing a draft of a Webapp Debian Policy.
You can also join the live discussions on the #debian-webapps chanel, on irc.oftc.net.