Gentoo on BAFM

portage / eselect-compiler

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:22:49 +0000

On Monday I helped Ned fixing ebuilds using the following DEPEND/RDEPEND:

`1`	`*DEPEND=" \|\| ( app-admin/eselect-compiler >=sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.1 )"`

Problems only popped up because app-admin/eselect-compiler got masked due to numerous, unresolved bugs (and Jeremy/eradicator being MIA again).

But that also revealed a bug within portage on handling the || ( a b ), where a is being masked.

So solar and I had being working on updating those ebuilds that use the above syntax (or something similar, some are using other versions, thanks Sven for the hint/reminder).

LiveCD, bootstraping and binary packages

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:22:11 +0000

Ok, as I said earlier I’m currently reinstalling my system from scratch (to finally and completly get rid of stupid eselect-compiler).

The first attempt was a bit, ehrm, error-prone (as in unpacking stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2, chroot ing to that and running emerge -ek system). Result was a b0rked chroot after the first two packages (heh, it was pulling in =sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 as the second package, thus everything that hasn’t been merged from my binpkg-repo and still originating from the snapshot being broken).

screen and UTF-8

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:15:32 +0000

Since I got annoyed by umlauts being printed as ░, I figured I’d install a UTF-8 capable font on this box here and all my problems would be gone. But not so fast.

screen is a real fucked up thing. If you’re starting screen via screen -U everything is nice and cosy, and you get your UTF-8 goodness. But, don’t think you’ll get away with just enabling UTF-8 as default and enabling UTF-8 for each new window by doing this:

Turning a simple chroot into a binpkg repository

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:12:40 +0000

OK, since Alex asked me last Sunday what exactly needs to be done to turn a simple chroot (or even a bloody box) into a binpkg producing environment, here’s a little howto …

First, lets start from a freshly unpacked stage3.

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catalyst/x86 stage3-amd64-hardened # chroot . /bin/bash --login
# Now, make sure you turn on FEATURES=buildpkg
# (and setup anything else you need, like CFLAGS,
# LDFLAGS, whatever)
linux # echo 'FEATURES="buildpkg"' >> /etc/make.conf

With that single change you’re basically nearly finished with setting up the whole thing, the remaining things are just

stages

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:12:01 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’ve been trying to get some stages together the last few days. Thanks to solar and Brent, the ppc-stages are now coming along quite fast.

I haven’t really tested them yet, but for what it’s worth, you’ll find stages based on Saturday’s snapshot (that is 200780105 for those not smart enough to take a look at the calendar) here for the following profiles:

uclibc/ppc (normal/-softfloat)
uclibc/ppc/hardened
uclibc/x86
uclibc/x86/hardened
hardened/amd64
hardened/amd64/nomultilib
hardened/x86/2.6 (x86/i686)

Now remember, this isn’t official release material. This is just MY effort ( for now) to provide current stages.

metadata-xml

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:04:45 +0000

So I ended up cleaning out some retired (~20) people from metadata.xml, where I found this interesting piece of metadata.xml:

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kernel-misc

 crypto@gentoo.org
 Crypto herd

 masterdriverz@gentoo.org
 Charlie Shephered

And here the hint for all you people again: A DAMN HERD AIN’T NO MAINTAINER. SO IF YOUR HERD IS MAINTAINING A PACKAGE, PUT IT INTO and not into the . kthnxbye.

Advanced bashrc ('Turning a simple chroot into a binpkg repository' continued)

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:11:14 +0000

As I pointed out back in October, it’s rather easy to create a setup which syncs a built binary package to a remote node (which is serving them to the world - via http,rsync,ftp - pick your poison).

Now, ever since we had slight space problems on miranda ( 🤕 my binpkgs 🤕), I wanted to look into methods on how to get rid of storing them on the buildnode and the webnode. I think now (hehe, it’s only 7pm), I finally managed to get a " proper" bashrc which does a lot of that foo. Take a look at this:

packages-barfoo-org is going away

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:09:37 +0000

For those of you, still using my binary packages. It’s just a waste of disk space for me (6.8G to be exact), so I decided to remove them. I’m gonna give people one week to grab yourself a copy. I’m gonna keep the bashrc and all the other stuff I wrote back when I was still interested in binary packages, but the binary packages are gonna vanish!

Gentoo packages are gone now!

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:08:30 +0000

Just like I announced last week, my binary packages repository is now history. I’m gonna remove the redirections from lighttpd and DNS in a few.

Looong time

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:23:38 +0000

Well, it’s been a loong time since I first thought about retiring (yes, I know that #-dev’s topic states " developer blogs" ain’t for announcing important things, but my blog has to do for this; if not, I don’t care anymore :!: ).

But I think it’s about time for me to leave. I haven’t done much lately, I’ve been soo damn busy with work these last months like I would never have imagined. I gave it some more thought, and I finally got to the point ( again I might add) where all just annoys and/or frustrates me.

All the damn bickering, the childish behaviour Josh talked about (" noooo, that’s my TOY!"), the constant abuse of power (hey #-chat, #-kde ops). I thought most of us would at least try and behave like the elderish people we are (well besides the few of us, who really are children by law’s definition - hey there welp, omp, keytoaster ;-) ). But I guess that’s just been an imaginary thought I had .. * shrug*

Retiring people

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:55:34 +0000

I’m not sure whether or not I blogged about this before, but here it is just for me to actually remember what, in which order I need to do. If you got the list in form of a csv file, simply do the following:

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wget -q http://tinyurl.com/4atkz7 -O - | grep "(" | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | awk '{ print tolower($1) }' > retirements
for developer in $( < retirements ); do
 retire.py --metadata $developer /cvs/gentoo-x86/ | diffstat > ~/metadata.$developer
done

That’ll give you a detailed list of which metadata.xml need to be changed.

metadata-xml (the second)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:04:27 +0000

As I was kinda bored after work today, I had a closer look at what I saw during my fuckup in the morning. Well, Steve said, that when he looked at metadata.xml it’d be " really common" .. still that isn’t making it right ..

There is a reason we do have a herds.xml (exactly for the reason to associate people with packages, and that’s what the tag is for in metadata.xml) file. So after a preliminary look through the repository, here are the winners:

metadata-xml (the third)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:14:28 +0000

So Petteri came up with a nifty python script ( local), which in return spit out this. Which generated a rather complete list ( local), that looks like this:

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700: perl
569: maintainer-needed
128: media-video
126: xemacs
47: sound
32: ha-cluster
32: crypto
19: desktop-misc
16: netmon
15: forensics
13: web-apps
10: pam-bugs
8: vserver-devs
8: mips
8: embedded
8: app-backup
8: apache-bugs
8: alsa-bugs
7: net-im
7: kde
6: tcltk
6: media-tv
6: dev-embedded
5: voip
5: theology
5: samba
5: net-p2p
5: freedesktop-bugs
4: sparc
4: java
4: graphics
2: net-mail
2: ldap-bugs
2: kernel
2: fonts
2: cpp
1: x11
1: wxwidgets
1: www-servers
1: tex
1: shell-tools
1: sgml
1: sci
1: qmail-bugs
1: python
1: proaudio
1: media-optical
1: kerberos
1: hp-cluster
1: amd64

To be or not to be ---

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:25:56 +0000

… that’s the question. I’ve been thinking lots and lots about my involvement with our " beloved" distribution.

I talked to some of the users (that is Gordon), some fellow developers (hello Christina, Łukasz, solar, Jorge, Anders) about whether or not I’m actually still wanted and/or needed. Turns out, the collective opinion is, that I am fun to have around ( 🤷 don’t ask me why, I don’t find myself particularly funny/amusing) and that’d I’d be the person to have around.

screen and UTF-8 (continued)

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:47:24 +0000

OK, since I last posted about my problems with screen and irssi being unable to handle unicode chars, I got a lot of feedback (here or on IRC), and actually it was Alexander who pointed me into the right direction. LANG=C doesn’t seem to support UTF-8 characters. So after adding

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export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF8"

to my environment everything is just fine … 😳

git-lkml for stupid people (like me)

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:06:43 +0000

OK, as Stephen recently asked why there is a double inclusion of in kernel/sysctl.c (and I asked Greg and Randy); I finally decided to write a patch to the LKML for possible inclusion.

But, git ain’t easy for people like me (who are used to the easiness of say - subversion or even cvs). So here’s what I did (thanks to Fernando for the help earlier today):

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$ vim kernel/sysctl.c
// change something
$ git checkout -b sysctl
// create a new branch from your changes, based upon the master repository
$ git commit -a -s
// commit the changes to your newly created branch
$ git format-patch master..sysctl
// Enter a subject and then a separate description
// and you should have a new file in the current working directory starting like 0001-*.patch

Now you should have a mailable patch, ready to be sent upstream that looks like this:

Praise teh sed

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:56:22 +0000

Since my talk with Robin on Thursday regarding the autogenerated userinfo.xml, I finally found some time today to get all the info’s I need out of userinfo.xml.

Since I don’t really want to manually enter all those mail addresses from userinfo into LDAP manually, I figured sed might be my best friend. BUT sed ain’t easy .. But thanks to Fabian and Gilles, I learned something new about sed today ..

Basically I searched for a way to transform userinfo.xml into a datafile for ldapedit.

Progress with apache-2-2

Mon, 28 May 2007 16:04:10 +0000

We’re finally making some progress with apache-2.2. It left the package.mask on the 8th of May (that’s like 3 weeks from tomorrow), we split some helper scripts into a separate package (app-admin/apache-tools).

I already fixed a few screwup I did myself (like apxs missing from either apache and apache-tools, or the compatibility symlinks being missing), so we “just” need to fix all the modules in the tree before apache-2.2 is going to get the new stable version (and of course anything else depending on. What also remains to do, is committing the new-style virtuals for bug 11007.

Saying thank you

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:28:14 +0000

As I’m way better writing stuff than saying it with my own words, here a short " Thank you! "

Christel, you have been a gracious and honest person, thanks for all the advice and help in the last year
Chrissy, thanks for the inspiring words, you really made/make me feel better
Alec (antarus), you’ve been a real friend and to say it with your own words “It sucks to be you”; to phrase it differently, I’m really going to miss you
Bryan, thanks for all the help, thanks for all the fun at FOSDEM (and after FOSDEM, hah)
Ned, Alexander (pappy); you’ve both been an inspiration, thanks for letting me work on hardened foo; it has been real fun
Mike (vapier), thanks for being a smart ass and inspiration at the same time
Chris, thanks for the inspiration and for being a sarcastic person 😉
Andrew, thanks for trying to make a fun out of me 😛 and thanks for warning me of Chris’s sarcasm

grub via serial console

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:09:17 +0000

As I have quite some trouble every time I need grub via serial console, here’s just my personal reminder on how to do it right:

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# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
serial --unit=0 --speed=38400
terminal --timeout=15 console serial

title hardened-sources-2.6.20-r1
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-hardened-r1 root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0

Additionally the agetty entry for ttyS0 in /etc/inittab needs to be uncommented and changed accordingly to the serial speed

Post FOSDEM 2007 thoughts (do I know you )

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:19:09 +0000

Some of us attended this years FOSDEM in Brussels (thanks to Dimitry it was really, really great).

We (at least the ones attending) got to know each other a bit better (I even got to know some pre Gentoo devs .. yeah, you), and some time after FOSDEM (I think it was ~3 days afterwards), Petteri (betelgeuse) asked me why people all of the sudden start to call him with his first name on IRC.

Gentoo/hardened and the new toolchain

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:28:44 +0000

OK, as some of you have noticed; I prepared my box for the new toolchain, recompiled the stuff Kevin mentioned in the exact same order wrote down in his README, and it looks like it actually works with all my stuff I have on my box; except sys-libs/grub! sigh

Apparently, grub segfaults at boot and/or while running it from the chroot in the exact same spot, the new QA warnings complain about ..

FOSDEM 2007 4 (abstract)

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:14:34 +0000

The last three days have been quite amazing, I’m still stunned by all these impressions (basically meeting all those people you usually know though IRC), how nice people can be if they want (yeah dad, I’m talking about you 😛)

Although I was pretty sad about leaving so early (I think, if I’m going to attend next year, I’m going by train and starting on Monday morning so I got one night more in Brussels), I’m also quite happy to be home again, as I was pretty phreaked (haha, self-pun intended) by all those people.

FOSDEM 2007 3 (WHUT)

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:20:14 +0000

Today, I got up again at 0630 ugh went to bath, woke up Torsten, afterwards the mystery guy and went downstairs to get some breakfast. I ate some cornflakes and some bread along with a glass of chilled orange juice, then went back up to get all our stuff and prepare the room the way we found it.

After we finished that, we went downstairs and met Alex along the way went to the cars and Torsten led us to the university. I went to the booth and noticed that Torsten and me where the only ones that early at the booth. So we sat down for a moment, cleaned up the booth space a bit and finally sat again preparing the notebooks.

FOSDEM 2007 2 (more friends, Bryan and superman)

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:57:05 +0000

So, as I earlier mentioned, we finally found the U.L.B. and also found the booth and staffed it for nearly the whole day (I haven’t managed to view any of the speeches, neither one of the Gentoo ones nor any of the others), I talked to some interested people asking about Gentoo itself, but also asking about the EFIKA’s (the Genesi PPC’s), one by Camille and Julien providing video forwarding (from one EFIKA to another via cross-over cable), and the other one by Chris playing Descent 2 and Quake 2 at the end. Peter (I think the PR guy from Genesi Europe, will have to ask Chris / Mike again).

FOSDEM 2007 1 (long time friends and gay horseporn)

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:54:16 +0000

We arrived in Brussels on Friday around 2230, since we kept searching the centre of Brussels, we really tried hard since we didn’t have a map, we tried navigating by bus cards (which was quite fun). So after we finally found the city centre (which is quite bad signposted), we went to the pub supposedly having the free beer, but they told us the FOSDEM area was closed due to christel drinking all beer (just kidding), but we did find Pylon and kugelfang I think.

media-video/codeine

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:36:15 +0000

OK, as Diego posted earlier last week, to switch to something else than xine-ui ( #161913 is really annoying), I decided to use codeine. It looks nice so far, supports what I need, so everything is fine now.

Thanks to Diego for the heads-up.

The Gentoo’ish look back

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:37:41 +0000

I had a very moving year with Gentoo. At first I only focussed on the stuff I already had (being vServer / openVZ related stuff), but later on also on suspend2-sources and other stuff I took over back when Hendrik retired.

Sometime this year (I think it was somewhere in the early summer) I joined up with the kernel herd, helped out Daniel while he was moving from London(?) to Boston, took over hardened-sources from John (who’s pretty much away). I had a rough break (you remember, the break that turned out to be my most active time) in October till late November, while fighting with my private life and work.

hardened-sources-2-6-18

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:56:45 +0000

Today (OK, it’s yesterday now, it’s again after 12:00) I had a little fun with pappy (Alexander Gabert) preparing 2.6.18 for prime time 😀

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$ ls -AGg 2.6.18
-rw-r--r-- 1 1593 Jan 25 23:25 1500_cvs-2007-1000.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 797 Jan 25 23:25 4000_deprecate-sk98lin.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 32192 Jan 25 23:25 4105_dm-bbr.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 125781 Jan 25 23:25 4300_squashfs-3.1.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 5710 Jan 25 23:25 4405_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 864955 Jan 25 23:25 4450_grsec-2.1.9-2.6.18.6-200611100917.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 910 Jan 25 23:25 4451_grsec-2.1.9-2.6.18.2-mute-warnings.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 1034 Jan 25 23:25 4452_selinux-avc_audit-log-curr_ip-grsec.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 2097 Jan 25 23:25 4453_pax_curr_ip-fixes.patch

So far all patches are applying fine and according to Alexander it even works on his workstation. But I’ll wait for Steve/Ned to get back to me telling me if this release works for them or not (as they had serious issues with their hardened desktops - something about the cursor being stuck in the corners).

continued gentoo-dev fun

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:57:36 +0000

OK, today I finally took the steps of adding Hans (that’s Hans de Graaf), and just after I kicked him from #gentoo-dev so he gets his +o and suddenly Astinus took over .. but see for yourself 😀

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(15:28) < @Astinus> graaff: So graaff, what'd they con^H^H^persuade you into doing?
(15:29) < @phreak``> Astinus: xemacs ;-)
(15:29) < @Astinus> phreak``: hah!
(15:31) < @graaff> Astinus: yes, xemacs, and when all of that is in order I'll see if I can help out
with ruby and/or gnome
(15:32) < @Astinus> graaff: to the former, good luck ;) to the latter, are you suicidal? ;-P
(15:32) < @phreak``> Astinus: actually it seem like he is :D
(15:32) < @Astinus> phreak``: Excellent, I see you went through the recruiting checklist thoroughly
(15:32) < @phreak``> Astinus: lol
(15:32) * graaff thinks better than to engage in a troll-fest about gnome on his first day
(15:32) < @Astinus> (a) Should be suicidal to a degree less than ciaranm
(15:32) < @Astinus> (b) should have a passion for Gentoo, but not the stalking developer kind
(15:33) < @Astinus> graaff: ;-P
(15:33) < @Astinus> graaff: *bait*

gentoo-dev fun

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:10:36 +0000

O boy, have I had a wonderful evening. I was watching We were heroes (after the eponymous book " We were heroes … and young"), while I took a peak at #gentoo-dev and look what I found:

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(19:24) will be masked, resistance is futile
(19:24) hehe
(19:24) lol
(19:24) Flameeyes: you're definitely watching waaay to much star trek (including Borg involvement :P)
(19:24) *plop*
(19:25) phreak``, watching voyager right now :P
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(19:25) phreak``, how do you know that Diego is not a borg?
(19:25) bonsaikitten, I'd like to be one
(19:25) who has met him? who has seen him sleep, eat or do anything else besides commiting stuff?
(19:26) bonsaikitten: a human couldn't take all that crap happening to him ;)
(19:26) * phreak`` runs
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(19:26) Flameeyes, let me guess, suppress emotions, optimize language, work work work?
(19:26) what? Flameeyes is human? I thought he was one of vapiers scripts...

gcc-config and CHOST

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:11:05 +0000

Okay, I admit I might be a bit stupid.

After my previous rant about gcc-config and eselect-compiler, it turns out that my CHOST was somehow b0rked. Just removing the -pc from CHOST=“i686-pc-linux-gnu” fixed the issues.

Chris (the White variety)

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:26:48 +0000

Hrm, I think I tortured christel a bit too much, earlier ..

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(16:53) <@phreak``> here we go ;-P /uploads/2008/08/dscn0739.jpg
(16:57) <@christel> LOL
(16:58) <@christel> the first one made me laugh so much

Actually Chris, I think that was your and Diego’s comment(s) in combination with esammer (thanks for the decent laughing flash I had btw 😮 )

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(22:33) <@phreak``> night everyone ;-P
(22:33) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: what's that?
(22:33) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: you thought you were going to get sleep?
(22:33) <@esammer> ChrisWhite: as well as well formed sentences and punctuation. well said.
(22:33) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: sorry pal, this is Gentoo, you're a developer
(22:33) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: we don't let you sleep
(22:33) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: you're over your sleep rations
(22:33) <@phreak``> ChrisWhite: yeah, again .. need to get up 2 hours before sunrise (thats in 5 hours to be exact)
(22:34) <@Flameeyes> phreak``, what happens to sunrise in 2 hours?
(22:34) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: what if it's cloudy?
(22:34) <@ChrisWhite> phreak``: or what if the sun dies out?

LinuxTag - part 3

Mon, 08 May 2006 09:27:51 +0000

I’m now at Frankfurt Airport and I nearly got on the earlier train to Stuttgart which I wasn’t able to catch, according to the service guy. I was facing the same problem than the morning before. The damn doors closed right in front of my face. Meh, Friday seems to be my bad luck day.

I’m still waiting for the ICE supposed to leave at 20:54 but it’s currently having eighteen minutes delay. My cousin messaged me earlier that she’ll collect me at Stuttgart Central Station. The day is nearly finished now and I’m awake since yesterday morning 07:40 minus that three hour break. I’m still pretty excited that I really got to Wiesbaden and I really enjoyed that little trip (even if it was a bit expensive).

LinuxTag - part 2

Mon, 08 May 2006 09:26:16 +0000

I’m sitting in the S8 to Frankfurt Airport where I’ll switch to the ICE to Stuttgart to visit my cousins and my aunt. Linux Tag was quite amazing, I finally met some of the people behind OpenVZ (Kir and Kirill), saw a bit of Andrew Morton’s Kernel FAQ (Kir told us that) and met some people including Bertl, doener, derjohn, zeng, foo, … of the linux-vserver community. Both workshops were quite interesting and I learned a lot of things about openvz and it’s userland tools and linux-vserver (finally I understood the CPU Tokenbucket system).

LinuxTag - part 1

Mon, 08 May 2006 09:25:24 +0000

Boy, that day started great (irony). I was supposed to get my lazy ass up at 04:20 am to be at the station at 05:27 am, taking the train to Wiesbaden (together with Hollow).

But someone in this odd world doesn’t like me. I somehow managed to turn off the damn cell (that was supposed to wake me up) and slept till 05:10 am, till Paula came in and woke me up. She told me she was awake since half an hour and she waited on me to step into her bedroom.

Birthday

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:31:55 +0000

Today being my Birthday pretty much started my day. Somehow I managed to accept a call at 00:12 (while I was asleep) but I don’t even remember taking it. Somehow my real live is getting better and better (as in finding some friends as I pretty much was a hermit for the last couple of years).

Also I found someone to share my toughts with, someone who understands it, how to really get to me (read it as a very good friend 😛)

vserver related stuff

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:07:42 +0000

Well, so I finally got around to fix some pending bugs ..

vzquota and vzctl is finally bumped ( #122532), new baselayout-vserver is in the tree (fixing some issues with rebooting a vps) and I’m finally working on getting dietlibc updated.

So let’s see what the day reveals 😄