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at daemon 3.1.20, with 3 fixes

Jose M. Calhariz — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:14:00 +0100

From the Debian BUG system I incorporated 3 fixes. One of them is experimental. It fixes a broken code but may have side effects. Please test it.

New release 3.1.20:

   * Add option b to getopt, (Closes: #812972).
   * Comment a possible broken code, (Closes: #818508).
   * Add a fflush to catch more errors during writes, (Closes: #801186).

You may download from here at_3.1.20.orig.tar.gz.

at daemon, now with proper support for --without-selinux

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:03:00 +0000

Thanks to Wenzong Fan, now the configure flag --without-selinux works properly.

So here is a new release at 3.1.19.

Please test it.

Preview of amanda 3.3.8-1, second try.

Jose M. Calhariz — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:13:00 +0000

I found a bug in amanda-3.3.8 that was quickly fixed by upstream. Please upgrade to this version.

The updates will go to collab-maint.The debs files for jessie are here:

amanda-common_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb

amanda-server_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb

amanda-client_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb

Here comes the changelog:

amanda (1:3.3.8-1~cal1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Upstream version
    * Changes for 3.3.8
      * s3 devices
          New NEARLINE S3-STORAGE-CLASS for Google storage.
          New AWS4 STORAGE-API
      * amcryptsimple
          Works with newer gpg2.
      * amgtar
          Default SPARSE value is NO if tar < 1.28.
          Because a bug in tar with some filesystem.
      * amstar
          support include in backup mode.
      * ampgsql
          Add FULL-WAL property.
      * Many bugs fix.
    * Changes for 3.3.7p1
      * Fix build in 3.3.7
    * Changes for 3.3.7
      * amvault
          new --no-interactivity argument.
          new --src-labelstr argument.
      * amdump
          compute crc32 of the streams and write them to the debug files.
      * chg-robot
          Add a BROKEN-DRIVE-LOADED-SLOT property.
      * Many bugs fix.
  * Refreshed patches.
  * Dropped patches that were applied by the upstream: fix-misc-typos,
    automake-add-missing, fix-amcheck-M.patch,
    fix-device-src_rait-device.c, fix-amreport-perl_Amanda_Report_human.pm
  * Change the email of the maintainer.
  * "wrap-and-sort -at" all control files.
  * swig is a new build depend.
  * Bump standard version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
  * Replace deprecated dependency perl5 by perl, (Closes: #808209), thank
    you Gregor Herrmann for the NMU.
  * New patch fix-amgtar-exclude to fix amgtar when the exclude file don't
    exist.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com>  Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:52:08 +0000

A Selection of Talks from FOSDEM 2016

Jose M. Calhariz — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:23:00 +0000

It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks are very good, with good presentations and contents.

It's very dificult to choose what talks to see, what talks to see later in video and what talks to loose. What I leave here is my selection of talks. This selection is representative of my tastes, not of the quality of the presentations. I will give links for material that is available now. I will do periodic updates when the new material is available: video or slides.

Welcome to FOSDEM 2016

systemd and Where We Want to Take the Basic Linux Userspace in 2016

Ian Murdock - In Memoriam

Putting 8 Million People on the Map

Closing FOSDEM 2016

Re-thinking Linux Distributions

Beyond reproducible builds

What Do Code Reviews at Microsoft and in Open Source Projects Have in Common?

Rearchitecting Linux I/O towards Petascale Storage

Digital Hardware Design: Why is it still so hard?

Libreboot - free your BIOS today!

How to design a Linux kernel API

Scaling and Securing LibreOffice Online

How containers work in Linux

Micro-datacenter with Raspberry Pi and Kubernetes

Live Migration of Virtual Machines From the Bottom Up

Interesting Things You Can Do With ZFS

ElectroBSD - Getting a reproducible BSD out of the door

Reproducible builds in FreeBSD packages

An introduction to LXD

Filesystem defragmentation strategies

CGroups: resources management inside and outside of a container

Powering Twitter's infrastructure with containers

Make backups and versions available easy.

Preview of amanda 3.3.8-1

Jose M. Calhariz — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:49:00 +0000

While I sort out a sponsor, my sponsor is very busy, here is a preview of the new packages. So anyone can install and test them on jessie.

The source of the packages is in collab-maint.The debs files for jessie are here:

amanda-common_3.3.8-1_cal0_i386.deb

amanda-server_3.3.8-1_cal0_i386.deb

amanda-client_3.3.8-1_cal0_i386.deb

Here comes the changelog:

amanda (1:3.3.8-1~cal0) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Upstream version
    * Changes for 3.3.8
      * s3 devices
          New NEARLINE S3-STORAGE-CLASS for Google storage.
          New AWS4 STORAGE-API
      * amcryptsimple
          Works with newer gpg2.
      * amgtar
          Default SPARSE value is NO if tar < 1.28.
          Because a bug in tar with some filesystem.
      * amstar
          support include in backup mode.
      * ampgsql
          Add FULL-WAL property.
      * Many bugs fix.
    * Changes for 3.3.7p1
      * Fix build in 3.3.7
    * Changes for 3.3.7
      * amvault
          new --no-interactivity argument.
          new --src-labelstr argument.
      * amdump
          compute crc32 of the streams and write them to the debug files.
      * chg-robot
          Add a BROKEN-DRIVE-LOADED-SLOT property.
      * Many bugs fix.
  * Refreshed patches.
  * Dropped patches that were applied by the upstream: fix-misc-typos,
    automake-add-missing, fix-amcheck-M.patch,
    fix-device-src_rait-device.c, fix-amreport-perl_Amanda_Report_human.pm
  * Change the email of the maintainer.
  * "wrap-and-sort -at" all control files.
  * swig is a new build depend.
  * Bump standard version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
  * Replace deprecated dependency perl5 by perl, (Closes: #808209), thank
    you Gregor Herrmann for the NMU.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com>  Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:56:12 +0000

Preview of switchconf 0.0.15-1

Jose M. Calhariz — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:04:00 +0000

Since the last version 0.0.9 on Debian, I have made some changes until version 0.0.14. The version 0.0.15 is only to include a fix for the new findutils. I thank you to Andreas Metzler for the fix and the prompt NMU.

The files are here, take notice about the replaced ~ in the original by _:

switchconf_0.0.15.orig.tar.xz switchconf_0.0.15-1_wip1.debian.tar.xz switchconf_0.0.15-1_wip1_all.deb

If you need the dsc file, just ask me.

Here comes the changelog since 0.0.9, without the lastest NMU:

switchconf (0.0.15-1~wip1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    * Replace 'find -perm +1' by 'find -perm /1', thank you Andreas
      Metzler for the patch and the NMU.
  * Add systemd service file, thank you Felipe Sateler for reviewing it.
  * Bump standards-version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
  * New maintainer email address.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com>  Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:59:07 +0000

switchconf (0.0.14-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Force the use of bash, instead of a POSIX shell.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt>  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:37:04 +0100

switchconf (0.0.13-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Add Homepage field pointing to alioth page of the project

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt>  Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:01:07 +0000

switchconf (0.0.13-1) wheezy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    * Distribution tar is now compressed by xz
  * Change to source format 3.0 (quilt)

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt>  Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:56:31 +0000

switchconf (0.0.12-1) wheezy; urgency=low

  * Fixed some typos on switchconf

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt>  Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:39:09 +0000

switchconf (0.0.11-1) wheezy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    * Makefile: add target dist-exp to build distribution files.
    * Add flag -f with the path to the configuration file.
  * Update debian/rules to version 0.24.
  * Update debian/control with new name and email address of Maintainer.
  * Update copyright.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt>  Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:04:22 +0000

switchconf (0.0.10-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    * Fix return code on error.
    * Use syslog system to report errors.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@ist.utl.pt>  Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:23:46 +0000

Preview of amanda 3.3.7p1-1

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:23:00 +0000

Currently, as of today, amanda on sid is not installable because of a dependency on perl5 instead of perl. While I sort out a sponsor, my sponsor is very busy, here is a preview of the new packages. So anyone can install and test them and work around bug #808209.

The source of the packages is in collab-maint. The debs files are here:

at daemon now with SELinux support

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:24:00 +0000

Thanks to the work of Laurent Bigonville, now the at daemon have SELinux support.

So here is a new release at 3.1.18.

Please test it.

Taking over the development of at daemon.

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:09:00 +0000

I decided some time ago to take over the development of at daemon.

Here is a new release of at v3.1.17

From the Changelog:

at 3.1.17 (2015-08-31):

  Jose M Calhariz:
        at.1.in: Document behaviour when using past time, thanks Kelly Price (Closes: #639900).
        Makefile.in: On distclean remove at.allow.5, auto generated file.

Problems with UEFI?

Jose M. Calhariz — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:49:00 +0100

Do you have problems with UEFI? Take a look into this page

Preview of switchconf 0.0.14-2 in Debian

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:50:00 +0100

There was a long time since I published the last version of switchconf.

This time someone requested that I add support for systemd by adding a service file. This service file does not make switchconf depend on systemd. It will still work with svs init scripts.

As my knowledge of systemd is minimal, please review my changes.

To download use the following entries:

switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4_all.deb

switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4.debian.tar.xz

switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4.dsc

switchconf_0.0.14-2_wip4_amd64.changes

switchconf_0.0.14.orig.tar.xz

Locking in Linux Systems

Jose M. Calhariz — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:13:00 +0000

Some notes on locking.

flock (1) (2)

lockfile (1)

Do not put the PID inside the lock file.

mutt_dotlock (1)

lockfile_create (3)

maillock (1) lockfile-create lockfile-remove lockfile-touch lockfile-check

lockfile-create --use-pid -r 0 file ; echo $?

lockfile-remove file

if ! lockfile-create --use-pid -r 0 file ; then echo no lock ; else echo lock ; fi

A Selection of Talks from FOSDEM 2015

Jose M. Calhariz — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:26:00 +0000

It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks are very good, with good presentations and contents.

Welcome to FOSDEM 2015

Identity Crisis: Are we who we say we are?

What is wrong with Operating Systems

Living on Mars: A Beginner's Guide

Closing FOSDEM 2015

Stretching out for trustworthy reproducible builds

Precise time: from CPU clocks to hacking the Universe

Computers, Clocks and Network Time

Ntimed an NTPD replacement

NTF's General Timestamp API and Library

Leveraging Ceph

OpenNebula Deployments, from Small to Massive

Observability in KVM

Transplantation of VirtualBox to the NOVA microhypervisor

Nix, NixOS, NixOps

Upstream Downstream

Are distributions really boring and a solved problem?

What's new in systemd, 2015 Edition

Live atomic updates

A Selection of Talks from DebConf14.

Jose M. Calhariz — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:34:00 +0100

This year I came to DebConf14. It's the anual conference of Debian. It's an interesting conference where the people get together to talk and hack about Debian. This year have the big bonus of a Q&A from Linus Torvalds.

Here is a selection of talks from DebConf14.

Welcome Talk

  Video

Debian in the Dark Ages of Free Software

  Video

Weapons of the Geek

  Video

Meet the Technical Commitee

  Video

Gnupg in Debian BoF

  Video

Debian Long Term Support

  Video

Power Tuning Linux a Case Studay

  Video

Bits from the DPL

What's New in the Linux Kernel

Group Photo

Q&A With Linus Torvalds

SteamOS and Debian

Jessie Bits from the Release Team

Closing Ceremony

Published switchconf v 0.0.14

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:42:00 +0100

I have published a new version of switchconf, v0.0.14.

Can be downloaded from switchconf_0.0.14.orig.tar.xz

This is the relevant part from the Changelog.

 * Force the use of bash, instead of a POSIX shell.

Align LVM PV with SSD erase blocks

Jose M. Calhariz — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:59:00 +0000

I found this article from Theodore Ts'o, interesting.

Published switchconf v 0.0.13

Jose M. Calhariz — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:56:00 +0000

I have published a new version of switchconf.

There are a number of changes since the previous public release 0.0.9 that I have to thank to John Halam. He sent me a big patch with a lots of new features that I am integrating one by one.

You may download switchconf from here.

Collect and keeps up to date the system information using sysinfoupdate

Jose M. Calhariz — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:50:00 +0000

In 2005 I was looking for ways to auto collect information about a Linux server. The information was to be used in case of bare bones recovery. I didn't found a satisfactory program so I created one, sysinfoupdate. This program have been growing long this years and now is a system that helps to maintain a diary of a Linux Installation. The diary records all the important changes the sysadmin does to the system. This records can be used during recovery after a broken hardware or to detect what change may be causing a malfunction, for example.

It's use is very simple, create a diario directory in your home directory, for example /root/diario, and then run sysinfoupdate. Inside diario you will find a group files with textual information about your system. It works best if you run it as superuser and you keep track of the changes under a version control system, like subversion or git.

You can download the Debian package here or download the source from here.

A Selection of Talks from FOSDEM 2014.

Jose M. Calhariz — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:29:00 +0000

It's that time of the year where I go to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting). The keynotes and the maintracks are very good, with good presentations and contents.

It is a big conference and this year, is not an exception. With 445 speakers and 512 talks at 22 rooms in only two days. It's impossible to see all the presentations. This year all the rooms have a video camcorder.

Welcome to FOSDEM 2014

  video

Reproducible Builds for Debian

   Video

Dual-Android on Nexus 10 using XEN

   Video

Software Archaeology for Beginners

   Video

Deploying Cloudstack with Chef

   Video

Linux tracing with LTTng

   Video

Reduce the Storage Consumption of Your Storage Cluster with RozoFS

   Video

Making the Linux Kernel better (without conding)

       Video

A metadata ocean in Puppet and Chef

   Video

Dovecot's way of scaling to millions of users

   Video

Postfix open source mail server - lessons learned and recent developments

   Video

Debian Contributors

   Video

Mailpile

   Video

5 Unexpected usages of wikis

Elasticseach 1.0

Xen on ARM

Power managment: a system wide challenge

   Video

What's New in OpenLDAP

   Video

The FOSDEM network What is NAT64 and DNS64; and why you should care

No more IPv4

   Video

Persistent Memory

   Video

Using RIPE Atlas API for measuring IPv6 Reachability

   Video

Ceph

What Ubunto Does to Help Users

Why You Should Be an Open Source Project

   Video

5 Unexpected usages of wikis

MATE Desktop The continuation of GNOME 2

   Video

Linux Configuration Collector cfg2html

   Video

NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report

   Video

Closing FOSDEM 2014

   Video

Update to kibana package II

Jose M. Calhariz — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:37:00 +0100

I have improved the packaging of kibana for Debian.

Add missing dependency on ruby-fastercsv.
Fix init.d status.

kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2_all.deb
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2.dsc
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6.orig.tar.gz
kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2.debian.tar.gz

The CMS have replaced the + by _ in the filenames. Be prepared to rename back the files before doing dpkg-source -x kibana_0.2.0_35_g40f2512_6-2.dsc