If you’re like me and want to build the ieee80211 driver for your debian box with the last kernel available in sid (2.6.24), you’ll have to apply that patch to the sources.
As you can see, a couple of changes occured in the Kernel API and that blocks the build.
Hope that can help.
Hey Lazyweb.
I’m back from holydays (those two weeks spent at Marbella, Spain, were fantastic, I even managed to fix my programmer’s tan, true).
I’m back at work, which means back at Debian’s work as well. I took a tour on my QA page yesterday in order to do some cleanup in and there. I first focused on the my Perl packages. I upgraded my working copy of the Perl Group’s SVN repo, whose layout changed recently thanks to Joey Hess. All of the perl libraries I maintain are now officially handled by the team (Maintainer: Debian Perl Group, myself as an uploader).
I then came to backup-manager in order to do some bug-hunting and closed 3 of them.
Well, Oh, Eh…
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I finally managed to get my new servers up-and-running (got all the worst issues you can imagine with my hardware provider), hosted in the french data-center “TeleHouse 2″.
It’s a Dual Core AMD 64 that runs a “Debian 3.1 Sarge” system, rock on babe!
Now, it’s time to move everything from nyx.sukria.net (my home-hosted box) to hypnos.sukria.net…
(…and yeah, @backup-manager.org services are affected by these changes)
As electricsheep 2.6.2 is now released, I packaged it for Debian (well, I was asked to do it).
I then sent a mail to Sander Smeenk, the actual maintainer for asking him if he’d like to have the source package I made for saving time.
He then answered me he didn’t have enough time for this package and offered me to adopt it, and guess what, I accepted.
I’ll be the new maintainer of electricsheep as soon as 2.6.2-1 gets uploaded to unstable by Neil McGovern, my sponsor.
That’s a pleasure for me to package such a creative piece of software; stay tuned androids, you’ll soon dream of electric sheeps!
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 gave a talk at the Libr’East of Paris 2005 event about the Debian Packaging System.
It was more a tutorial than a talk, and was aimed to learn how to build a dummy package.
I chose to write a tutorial about the packaging of the famous hello world piece of software.
At the end, everyone in the audience managed to build their first .deb archive and seemed to be pretty happy about that.
That was my first public action for the Debian project, and I was really proud to come overthere in the name of our project. That’s exciting.
After talking with a co-worker about that tutorial I gave, he told me that he knows someone who handles tutorial sessions in Paris, and might be interested … To be continued…
For the french readers around, the tutorial is available here.
Eh well, the old Sun Ultra 5 station that was dying slowly here at the office is now on my desk.
It’s useless to say that I’ve jumped to the last debian-installer iso for sparc architecture and booted the box on it.
Now I can play with a Sarge sparc box and that’s great, meaning that I’ll be able to build all the packages I’m working on for that architecture.
I’ve just realized that the tiny plugin I wrote for Mozilla is still used. And by the way, I also realized that I didn’t post anything about it in english, so here it is.
The last release available for BloggerTool is 0.3. As it works pretty well and is really basic, I don’t plan to update the extension unless I receive request for adding url templates.
BloggerTool will provide a smart way of adding entries to your blog: by just right-clicking on a selection you made when browsing, a popup window get opened and try to reach the website you set up in the BloggerTool preferences window.
There are some predefined websites :
The BloggerTool extension was written from the source of the BlogThis extension.
