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Ejabberd 1.1.1 in BreakMyGentoo 0

I’m proud to provide a new Ejabberd-ebuild to our users. Ejabberd 1.1.1 comes with an important new feature: it supports MySQL natively. I fixed up PostgreSQL-issues in the ebuild and provide now the native drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL Also I’m happy to mention that NU2M, the company which is involved in Mabber and for which I’m currently working for, is going to release some really interesting Jabber-components, especially for Ejabberd, during the next weeks.

Links

Filed on 07-05-2006, 02:02 under , , , , , , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

jabber.breakmygentoo.net 0

I’d put jabber.breakmygentoo.net in the vhosts of our ejabberd, so feel free to register a Jabber-account, if you are a BreakMyGentoo-developer. Otherwise you’ll become virtually tared and feathered, you understand?
Also you can join us in breakmygentoo@conference.jabber.breakmygentoo.net.

Filed on 05-03-2006, 20:08 under , , , , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

New developer: Stelian Ionescu (fenlix) 0

New developer
I’m proud to welcome Stelian Ionescu to the BreakMyGentoo-team. He comes from Romania and is living and studying mathematics in Rome, Italy. He is skilled in C, C++, Shell, Ocaml, CommonLisp whereas CommonLisp is his favourite programming language. Yet another well-skilled developer is joining the BreakMyGentoo-team, so he will help us to push things forward. Let me say good Luck, dude!

Quality assurance, quality assurance, quality assurance
From the good to the bad: there are a lot of QA-issues in our current BreakMyGentoo-tree, we should fix this as soon as possible. Please use repoman for every ebuild you submit. You can ignore warnings about the copyright-header (another issue: please use our BreakMyGentoo-header), about missing arches, and so on). But please fix the other issues, for example include metadata.xml and so on. Thanks.

Splitting beagle
And, at last: beagle will be split into libbeagle and beagle-search to fix #190 properly. Stelian will be responsible to do this change.

Filed on 02-03-2006, 00:12 under , , , , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

About ejabberd, transports, lazy Gentoo-developers and the gloriousness of Schokokeks.org 7

We did it. I’m proud to announce the completed set of transports on Schokokeks.org, including MSN, ICQ, AIM, GaduGadu (just to have the longer cock than Mabber) and Yahoo!.


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Filed on 27-02-2006, 19:07 under , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , & seven comments & no trackbacks

It's A Good Day But Just A Beginning 0

OpenSSH 4.2 has been released (see Pro Linux, german only). As a start that’s not so important. Version bumps are common in the OpenSource community. But as a security enhancement they higher the default size of SSH-keys from 1024 to 2048, which makes sense in general primarily for the RSA-algorithm, which could be broken in the size of 1024. For paranoiac reason it makes sense to use 4096 RSA-keys to be on the bright side of security. But highering the SSH-keys is not enough, we need to get rid of MD5 and SHA1 completely, e.g. the /etc/shadow must use another algorithm, example whirlpool or SHA512; GnuPG uses SHA1, Gentoo’s portage uses MD5-checksums and so on. The free software community seems to deal with that problem like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. It’s high time to check out alternatives, it’s high time to take the cryptography experts seriously. I don’t understand them also but I think we have to trust.
And, for fun: my workmate told me, that SHA1 is mandatory for the security issues of banks. That’s too funny. If you think on the average duration if a law is changed here you shouldn’t do any online-banking from now on.

Filed on 03-09-2005, 11:11 under , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

Epiphany's Greasemonkey Extension 0

<a href=”/img/delicous-greasemonkey.png”><img src=”/img/delicous-greasemonkey_small.png” alt=“IMAGE: epiphany with «greasemonkeyed» del.icio.us-page” style=“float:right;” /></a>The new and polished version of epiphany comes with a greasemonkey extension. Well know from firefox this extension brings the possibility to edit webpages to customize them by your own purpose.

[ If you use BreakMyGentoo, you won’t have a problem. Just emerge epiphany and its extensions. It «just works»! ]

Filed on 02-09-2005, 00:12 under , , , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

BIG FAT WARNING: Solving the GTK+ USE-flag hell 4

As proposed by Doug Goldsteinn (the guy who sometimes told FUD about us), the BreakMyGentoo-team will fix the GTK-useflag. So, from the users point of view, remember:
If you want to have GTK+-2x-support, USE=“gtk2” will do it
If you want to have old and crappy GTK+-1x-support, USE=“gtk1” will fit to your needs

Filed on 28-08-2005, 17:05 under , , , & four comments & no trackbacks

Monopod - Take Care of Your Podcasts 1

I put Monopod into our BreakMyGentoo-repository. It is a tool to fetch podcasts and follows the central GNOME-philosophy «it just works». Update our SVN-repository, type «emerge net-news/monopod» and enjoy a small but famous application.

Update:
Sorry, I included an outdated version. Please update your repository again to get 0.4.

Filed on 19-08-2005, 00:12 under , , , , & one comment & three trackbacks

Not just for fun 0

In 2.0.51_pre9 the new feature src_test(), a possibility to test the compiled binaries has been added to portage, Gentoo’s install scripts. This was a nice enhancement but nevertheless, most of the developers seems to ignore it. It is not the most important thing, so sometimes it makes sense to prevent the ebuild from executing «make test» and to do an «src_test() { true }» instead of executing the test but in common cases it is sensible to do it that way. But if you’d took care, you had mentioned, that «maketest» is in there since May 2003, which is quite a long time to take a look at it.

Using it or not using it is not the most important thing. More important is if a developer takes care on it. Our BreakMyGentoo-policy is clear: disable it if it prevents a package from being successfully built and is not a serious bug or enable it if is building. This rule is ok as it is not an important bug. But e.g. most of the GNOME-herd in Gentoo ignores this completely. They don’t care if it is important, if is should be disabled, if it is unimportant or whatever. They just ignore complaints about that feature. This is annoying because you’re unable to built a complete Gentoo-system with maketest in your feautures-list, because GNOME will surely hang off. So I want to appeal to the Gentoo developers and – of course – to the maintainer of the specific software: please take case on «make test», provide such a make-target if it’s reasonable and test if it is working before you release a new version of your software. Don’t provide an interactive test, don’t try to access to the X-server during the test, don’t try to write or read from files outside the destdir, don’t do something else annoying.

Filed on 14-08-2005, 01:01 under , , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

Version bump: revelation-0.4.4 0

New vesion in the BMG-Repository. Check it out. It provides a nice applet to search into your password-database.

Filed on 10-08-2005, 19:07 under , , , , & no comments & no trackbacks

Don't install GNOME-2.11 0

I want to make something clear: don’t use GNOME 2.11 already. It’s just in our overlay for internal testing. It’s heavily broken currently. I think tomorrow evening (GMT+1) we are ready. But I recommend to wait until we’re done.

Filed on 09-08-2005, 19:07 under , , , & no comments & one trackback

New ebuilds and again a new developer 1

I recruited Raphaël Slinckx as the next developer for BreakMyGentoo. He is a famous GNOME-developer, involved e.g. in Gedit. I’m happy to work with him together.

New ebuilds:

Update:
As I promised to do, I’d set up an Newsfeed. Now you can aggregate us.

Filed on 06-08-2005, 03:03 under , , & one comment & no trackbacks

New ebuilds: f-spot and istanbul 0

f-spot-0.0.13, a photo-managment tool and istanbul-0.1.1, a gstreamer-based desktop recording util are now in the BreakMyGentoo-tree.

Filed on 05-08-2005, 18:06 under , , & no comments & one trackback

New contributor: Hendrik Brandt a.k.a heb 0

I’m proud to introduce a new contributor to BreakMyGentoo, Hendrik Brandt. Good luck!

Filed on 05-08-2005, 14:02 under , , & no comments & no trackbacks

New ebuild: criawips 0

I’d checked in app-office/criawips, a GNOME-presentation program maintained by Sven Herzberg. Herzi, I’m sorry forcing you to create the 0.0.10.1-release but it was necessary.
Criawips currently comes just with basic feature but the features it provides seems to be quite well-designed. Try it out!

Update:
I forgot to mention gnome-schedule, an easy-to-use frontend to cron and at. I think this would be good stuff for Hanno, who has problems with this tools…

Filed on 04-08-2005, 20:08 under , , & no comments & no trackbacks

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